Healthcare Innovation February 28, 2023
Speaking at CDC-ONC Industry Day, national coordinator mentions USCDI Plus for Public Health, the Helios FHIR accelerator, and TEFCA public health use cases
When the initial Qualified Health Information Networks were announced on Feb. 13, several federal health leaders, including CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, M.D., M.P.H., highlighted the potential public health use cases for TEFCA. At the CDC-ONC Industry Day on Feb. 27, Micky Tripathi, Ph.D., national coordinator for health IT, elaborated on TEFCA as well as other efforts underway to modernize the public health data infrastructure.
Tripathi began by saying that a focus of HHS has been building cross-agency muscle, and doing everything it can to make sure that the department is more than the sum of its parts....