PEW July 22, 2021
Additional steps are needed to fill remaining health IT gaps to protect communities, improve patient matching
On July 9, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), the federal agency that oversees health information technology, announced a long-awaited change that could help doctors and nurses provide better, more timely care for their patients.
The agency released an updated version of the U.S. Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI), a list of information that all electronic health record (EHR) systems must be able to share with each other—and without which providers may not have all the background they need to provide the right care for their patients.
In its update, ONC included data on social determinants of health, which...
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