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 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 Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has received a large number of comments on its draft interoperability road map. Some commenters have praised it; others have offered criticisms.

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 ...

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.

The American Medical Informatics Association has called on National Coordinator for Health IT Donald Rucker to update the Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap and work toward a stronger infrastructure ...

The final tally is in--nearly 250 comments were submitted on the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's draft interoperability roadmap, an impressive number for a document that was not ...

Last week, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT published nearly 250 public comments that it received on its draft nationwide interoperability roadmap. Stakeholders' reactions were ...

When President George W. Bush elevated healthcare technology to the level of a national priority, the primary goal was ready access to health records. Fast forward a decade and the former president ...

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 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 ...