ONC Will Focus on Interoperability in 2011

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT will focus in 2011 on activities that will enable healthcare providers to perform complex exchanges of information and on the technical foundation to support secure sharing.

ONC is considering a set of tasks it needs to undertake “in short order” to make it possible for stage 2 of meaningful use to have a more robust exchange of information, said Dr. David Blumenthal, national health IT coordinator, at the Jan. 12 meeting of the advisory Health IT Standards Committee .