The ONC Reorganization

Many people have asked me to explain the recent reorganization at ONC, reducing 17 different offices to 10:Office of Care Transformation:  Kelly CroninOffice of the Chief Privacy Officer:   Joy PrittsOffice of the Chief Operating Officer:   Lisa LewisOffice of the Chief Scientist:  Doug Fridsma, MD, PhDOffice of Clinical Quality and Safety:  Judy Murphy, RNOffice of Planning, Evaluation, and Analysis:  Seth PazinskiOffice of Policy:  Jodi DanielOffice of Programs:  Kim LynchOffice of Public Affairs and Communications:  Nora SuperOffice of Standards and Technology:  Steve PosnackIn case you are looking for the Office of Consumer eHealth, it’s still there - in the Office of Programs.Simply, the era of stimulus has ended and ONC no longer has the operating budget to do as many projects as fast as during the era of ARRA.I believe that ONC will need to reduce the number of Standards and Interoperability framework (S&I) initiatives from 18 to a more manageable number - maybe 5.   This will be very challenging because many of the projects are priorities of other federal agencies. Just as Apple has created an ecosystem for healthcare with HealthKit, I’m hopeful that a few good standards can accelerate the ecosystem.   For example, if content moves from CCDA to FHIR/JSON, transport moves from SMTP/SOAP to REST, and application program interfaces are available for home care devices/iPhone apps, then many S&I use ca...
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