Clearly feeling the heat from Congress and other critics to achieve interoperability of health information sooner rather than later, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on Tuesday finalized its roadmap to the vision of easy, secure health information exchange.
The final version is not all that different from a draft released in January, but there are a few changes. “There is a significant focus on near-term goals,” Erica Galvez, ONC’s interoperability manager, told reporters during a conference call from Washington. That means achieving true, standards-based interoperability by 2017.
Also added were milestones for each topic area of the document so organizations can measure progress and stay on track. “It would be unreasonable” to ask stakeholders to memorize the roadmap, Galvez said.
The roadmap contains three sets of goals, over the near term, midterm and longer range, dovetailing with a 10-year vision spelled out a year ago: For the full article click here
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