HealthIT Answers July 5, 2021
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By Andy Aroditis, CEO, NextGate

Last month, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released its first Project US@ Technical Specification draft for public comment. The initiative aims to improve patient matching, while supporting interoperability, privacy and safety, by issuing a unified address standard throughout healthcare. The draft is the result of months of work by dedicated healthcare stakeholders, including NextGate’s CTO, Danny Cidon, to establish a lasting, industry-wide standard for formatting patient addresses consistently across clinical and administrative systems. Comment period opens July 1st and closes on July 31, 2021. NextGate is very proud of the work by the committee and is currently working on submitting our feedback.

Momentum around standardizing demographic addresses for patient...

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Topics: ASTP/ONC, Cures Act, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology
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