Health IT Interoperability July 29, 2016
The task force charged with informing the committees advising ONC on health IT interoperability has issued its first series of recommendations.
The 2017 Interoperability Standards Advisory Task Force (ISATF) has submitted a host of recommendations to assist ONC in drafting its next interoperability guidance for the healthcare industry with an emphasis on ensuring health IT interoperability across the care continuum and making the process of issuing guidance user-friendly.
The task force submitted its comments to the Health IT Policy and Standards Committees earlier this week, which served as talking point for a joint meeting of the federal advisory committees this month. In those comments, ISATF noted that the Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA) is an integral component of ONC’s Nationwide Interoperability...