US Government Office Of The National Coordinator For Health Information Technology (ONC) Joins the OpenID Foundation

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) located within the Office of the Secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has joined the OpenID Foundation (OIDF). ONC is the principal federal entity charged with coordination of nationwide efforts to implement and utilize the most advanced health information technology for the electronic exchange of health information.

ONC is at the forefront of the Administration’s Health IT efforts and is a key standards development resource to the national health system to support the adoption of health information technology and the promotion of nationwide health information exchanges. Ms. Debbie Bucci will join the Board of Directors of the OpenID Foundation as the ONC representative.

Two key initiatives the ONC plans to undertake within the OIDF is to lead a Healthcare Information Exchange (HIE) working group to create a profile of OpenID Connect and follow-on associated pilot projects. Ms. Bucci, an IT Architect in the Implementation and Testing Division, is helping lead a profiling and interoperability testing effort at ONC and will be one of the leaders of the HIE working group activities...