Interoperability helps clinicians deliver safe, effective, patient-centered care. It also provides new ways for individuals and caregivers to access electronic health information to manage and coordinate care. Advancing interoperability is now an essential part of most health care activities. ONC leads and coordinates interoperability activities nationwide. This includes supporting ...
The Interoperability Standards Platform (ISP) is the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s (ASTP/ONC) repository for standards initiatives that advance health data interoperability nationwide.
The Path to Interoperability Interoperability is the ability of two or more systems to exchange health information and use the information once it is received.
In May 2021, ONC launched Health Interoperability Outcomes 2030 to engage the public and seek out aspirational, achievable, and measurable “Interoperability Outcome Statements” for 2030. ONC received over 700 submissions during the public comment period.
ASTP/ONC’s HTI-4 final rule finalizes certain proposals from the HTI-2 Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability proposed rule, including new and updated health IT certification criteria for electronic prior authorization, electronic prescribing, and real-time prescription benefit information.
What’s in a number? A lot, it turns out, especially when it comes to measuring interoperability progress. For well over a decade, we have collaborated with federal and private sector partners on interoperability-related surveys to answer a big picture question: “how are we doing?” Unlike other aspects of our lives where we can measure progress based on a single metric (like weight loss ...
Health information exchange organizations (HIOs) are networks that enable the electronic exchange of health information across participating health care providers, public health agencies, payers, and other entities. They also have a unique, wide-angle lens on the state of interoperability nationwide. Since 2020, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ASTP) has partnered ...
Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap: The Journey to Better Health The nation relies on Health IT to securely, efficiently and effectively share electronic health information with patient consent to achieve better care, smarter spending and healthier people. Interoperability will transform our health system from a static one to a learning health system that improves individual, community ...
The Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA) process represents the model by which the Assistant Technology for Technology Policy (ASTP) will coordinate the identification, assessment, and public awareness of interoperability standards and implementation specifications that can be used by the United States healthcare industry to address ...
Introduction Health Level 7 (HL7®) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) is a widely used, open standard for exchanging health information that is based on modern internet technology approaches. Thanks to considerable effort by technology developers and the HL7 standards development community, FHIR is now ready for prime time.
