Health and Wellness Informatics News
ONC and HL7 partner up for a bold change in the healthcare industry. They are working on interoperability among hospitals and clinics.
Fast Health Interoperability Resources are pretty useful. They are quite influential in complementing the SDOH Clinical Care FHIR Implementation guide. This has applications from screening and diagnosis to goal setting and interventions. This also shows us that interoperability is important in all hospitals and clinics.
ONC is the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. They have also funded the interoperability pilot. Health Level Seven International, or HL7, is also under this partnership. The funding is through a formal agreement. They are also applying other methods to exchange information.
There is a limited set of data available for any health information exchange. However, they mainly manage the information that is usually outside the purview of a hospital. But this information or data is too significant. It can still affect any person’s health or life. They are mostly food, shelter, and transportation.
The interoperability pilot wants to bring in the whole community. Also, this is beneficial as more and more numbers help make this work. Many community-based organizations can take part in this program. Some clinical partners can help increase the technological access of interoperability.
ONC is also working to address the problem of health inequities fully. They also claim that the problem lies in poverty and racism. Both of them can be under control. Data is the king here. Proper restoration and access are the way forward. We also need careful collection and documentation.
The higher authorities and organizations still need to work on the interoperability problem. There are some gaps here and there. The authorities should work on that. One of them is the screening. Screening can happen in different electronic health records and at a third-party app.
HL7 is very important for this partnership. They have always worked to improve health access. They continue to work on health equity. The partnership with ONC can help with access to interoperability.
