ONC Data Brief | October 2023
Patient use of their health information accessible to them through online tools (e.g., patient portals and smartphone apps) can help empower them to make informed decisions about their health and track progress on health-related goals, potentially resulting in improved patient outcomes (1). Enabling patients to access and use the information contained in online medical records and patient portals may also provide significant health system benefits, including decreased healthcare costs and...
A HITEQ Center Training Badge
In March 2019, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued a Proposed Rule, 21st Century Cures Act: Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program. ONC released a final rule in March 2020, published in the Federal Register on May 1, 2020. The Final Rule on Information Blocking prohibits actors from blocking the exchange of electronic health information and seeks to increase the ease and choices available...
From ONC's HealthIT.gov, highlighting Data Segmentation for Privacy and Consent2Share
Privacy and confidentiality concerns are currently limiting the inclusion of behavioral health data in electronic health information exchange efforts. ONC has provided a number of tools and recommendations to address some of these concerns.
A use case example from the Arizona Health-e Connection and SAMHSA Consent2Share project
This is a recent presentation by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Health IT effort that provides an overview of their Consent2Share project. Consent2Share is a tool for consent management and data segmentation that is designed to integrate within existing electronic health record (EHR) and Health Information Exchange (HIE) systems.
This overview is provided to health center leadership and staff to help them better understand new practices and...