HealthIT Answers March 4, 2020
HHS/ONC/CMS Communications

By Teresa Zayas Caban, Kevin Chaney, MGS, Stephanie Garcia, MPH, Tracy Okubo, PMP and Robert Carroll, PhD, ONC

The increasing availability of electronic health data in the 21st century has tremendous potential to ignite a new era of inquiry and discovery. ONC is part of the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI), a federal effort to spur the next generation of health research by rethinking access, aggregation, storage, and analysis of many kinds of health and health-related data. With precision medicine, researchers will be able to make new discoveries about health and illness to bring a more personalized approach to patient care.

ONC works closely with PMI collaborators to enhance the health IT infrastructure by:

  • Supporting pilot projects and standards to...

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Topics: Biotechnology, Cybersecurity, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), ONC, Patient / Consumer, Precision Medicine, Privacy / Security, Provider, Technology
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