Interoperability

Agency will hire a chief data strategist to guide the development and implementation of the roadmap.

The administration is working to enhance patient access to health data and will soon issue policy to advance information availability and exchange.

New Trump administration effort looks to encourage data sharing, cloud-based approach, says Joel White.

Four major health IT vendors and 13 provider sites are looking to enroll a total of 1,300 participants.

MyHealthEData effort, which seeks to eliminate barriers preventing consumer electronic access and control of medical records, will include an overhaul of Meaningful Use program, says Seema Verma.

Using open standards, vendor seeks to address industry’s interoperability challenges, says Eric Schmidt.

Letter to Don Rucker, MD, says exchanging more clinically relevant information would better inform clinical decisions.

Alex Azar, Trump’s pick to lead the agency, sees health IT as both benefit and burden to healthcare providers.

Providers can’t manage risk, care or cost without timely and comprehensive information, says the Physician-Focused Payment Technical Advisory Committee.

$9M funding aims to improve data accessibility to speed biomedical discoveries, says Francis Collins, MD.