The ONC 10 Year Vision

On June 5th 2014, ONC released  “Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: a 10-Year Vision to Achieve an Interoperable Health IT Infrastructure" The plan is divided in 3 year goals, 6 year goals, and 10 year goals.  Five specific tactics support the strategies.Below is a summary of the report and a few comments from my Massachusetts experience that support the reasonableness of the ONC goals.   Based on the trajectory of current technology and policy, I’m confident we can achieve these milestones.   One caveat - since Meaningful Use Stage 3 takes effect in 2017, three years from now, we will need to adjust the scope and focus of Stage 3 to align with the ONC three year goals.   I’ve written in previous posts that we should simplify future stages of Meaningful Use to less than 10 policy goals, highlighting interoperability, without being overly prescriptive.   The ONC Vision gives us the opportunity to do that.Three-Year Agenda: Send,  Receive,  Find, and Use Health Information to Improve Health Care Quality1.  Ensure that individuals and care providers can send, receive, find, and use a basic set of essential health information.  This requires the ability to appropriately search for and retrieve health information, in addition to point-to-point information sharing. Massachusetts has already built statewide Direct gateways for transport of payloads from one location to another.   The Commonwealth is also live with ...
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