HHS proposes path to improve health technology and transform care

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology released Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap Version 1.0.

The draft Roadmap is a proposal to deliver better care and result in healthier people through the safe and secure exchange and use of electronic health information. The draft Roadmap calls for ONC to identify the best available technical standards for core interoperability functions. With this announcement, ONC is delivering on this action with the release of the Draft 2015 Interoperability Advisory: The best available standards and implementation specifications for interoperability of clinical health information . The Standards Advisory represents ONC’s assessment of the best available standards and implementation specifications for clinical health information interoperability as of December 2014.