ONC reveals final interoperability roadmap

Healthcare IT News: ONC on Tuesday finalized its eagerly awaited interoperability roadmap.

"Data needs to be free," said national coordinator Karen DeSalvo, MD. "If we're going to change the care model we need an information model to support it."

That thinking is at the heart of the report, Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap, which DeSalvo labeled a critical part of the broader delivery system reform effort.

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