ONC is sunsetting its nationwide interoperability roadmap, the agency’s action map for achieving widespread data sharing across the U.S. healthcare system. ONC released its interoperability roadmap in ...

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology unveiled a draft for its 10-year plan for healthcare interoperability at a joint meeting on October 15. The Office of the ...

The Federal Trade Commission has voiced support for the ONC’s interoperability goals but warned the agency that too much regulation could damage competition. In its formal comments on the ONC’s Shared ...

At the annual meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), members of the organization's Electronic Health Record Vendors Association (EHRVA) voted to release the ...

The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT should add information about Precision Medicine to its Interoperability Roadmap, the office’s Precision Medicine Task Force recommended.

In presenting an updated version of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's draft interoperability road map to a joint meeting of the federal Health IT Policy and Standards Committees ...

HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology this week launched a new initiative to plot out interoperability goals to drive the industry forward this decade. Through its ...

As the news traveled across healthcare circles on The ONC’s ambitious goal for full-scale interoperablity by 2017, reaction was largely positive and of encouragement from several stakeholders, ...

When it comes to interoperability in healthcare, there’s been a lot of talk and not much action. So, now, despite lots of initiatives, alliances and a national roadmap, one consultant believes it’s ...

The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices Health Division published a roadmap to help states boost information flow between providers. Titled “Getting the Right Information to the ...

One of the big problems in hospital computing has long been simple interoperability. Given the high sales cost and high value of a hospital sale, vendors resist this. Proprietary protections make the ...