Healthcare Innovation May 13, 2021
David Raths

ONC Health IT Advisory Committee creates a Public Health Data Systems Task Force charged with identifying and prioritizing policy and technical gaps

“I’ve often felt like during the pandemic we were thrown into a river swimming upstream and IT was our biggest failure holding us back by our ankles, and I think we have a real chance to do this better moving forward.” That was an observation of Anne Zink, M.D., a practicing emergency medicine physician and chief medical officer for the State of Alaska. She was speaking during a May 13 meeting of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT Advisory Committee (HITAC) focused on public health.

The ONC HITAC has created a Public Health Data...

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Topics: ASTP/ONC, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, Healthcare System, HIE (Interoperability), Provider, Public Health / COVID, Technology
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