AMIA Supports ONC Draft Framework

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) responded to a request for information (RFI) issued by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) outlining a draft framework to measure the use of interoperability standards in health IT products. The national association of health informatics professionals supported ONC’s draft framework, recommending a measurement approach that focuses on the clinician and patient experience. AMIA underscored the need to have the benefits of any measurement outweigh the costs, and urged federal officials to provide sufficient support to develop and implement automated measurement solutions. The Framework ONC issued its “Proposed Interoperability Standards Measurement Framework” in April, seeking feedback on an industry-wide measurement framework for assessing the implementation and use of healthcare interoperability standards. Currently, stakeholders’ capabilities to measure and report on the use of standards vary significantly across the health IT ecosystem, ONC noted. This framework is meant to help health IT developers, health information exchange organizations, and healthcare providers move towards a set of uniform measures to assess interoperability progress. The purpose of the Framework is to determine the nation’s progress in implementing interoperability standards in health information technology (health IT) and the use of the standards as a way to measure progress towards nationwide interoperability. ...
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