Link: News from Government Health IT Journal
The ONC is seeking to partner with Medicaid for software that enables health data exchange between Medicaid and other state health offices, as well as with federal and commercial health service agencies.
Looks like they are "breaking ground" for national Health Information Exchanges (HIEs). "The group envisions health information sharing across states, where health and social services agencies have traditionally been disconnected from one another."
Rick Friedman, director of CMS’s Division of State Systems said, "Ultimately we’d like to have an interconnected world in which there’s so much information at the federal level from places like the (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) from the DOD, from VA. And hopefully with a push of the button we’ll be able to talk to each other. They are as interested in our data as we are interested in theirs.”
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