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If you haven't already, be sure to stop by the Health IT Buzz Blog to view Dr. Farzad Mostashari's, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, latest blog post where he discusses the new Query Health Initiative, among others: http://www.healthit.gov/buzz-blog/from-the-onc-desk/announcing-metadata-pilots-realize-pcast-vision/#ixzz1VJk5Ykjx Keep tabs on our Wiki page for updates related to Query... Continue reading

Recently, the Provider Directories Query for Electronic Service Information Use Case Development Team passed the baton to the Harmonization Team to conduct a thorough analysis of the data elements defined in the use case. Going forward, the Harmonization Team will evaluate each standard as a group and commit to a... Continue reading

Earlier this week, Arien Malec announced his resignation as Coordinator of the Direct Project and the Standards & Interoperability (S&I) Framework to return to the private sector. Upon speaking to the Transitions of Care Initiative during the All Hands Meeting on August 9, Arien expressed his gratitude and enthusiasm for... Continue reading

Last week, the Transitions of Care (TOC) Initiative released the Clinical Information Model (CIM) for consensus feedback. The TOC CIM is intended to serve as a logical overlay and neutral representation of the data needed to support care transitions. The value proposition inherent in the CIM is that it provides... Continue reading

Join us for the second installment today at 12:30. The first installment of ONC’s Summer Concert Series featured Rich Platt and Jeff Brown of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Population Medicine who presented their work in distributed population queries. PopMedNet uses distributed networks to analyze data from multiple organizations in... Continue reading

We want to call your attention to Wes Rishel's blog post last night on "Sending Questions to the Data" http://blogs.gartner.com/wes_rishel/2011/07/26/onc-moves-on-sending-questions-to-the-data/ Feel free to share your comments and ideas with Wes. Continue reading

ONC is pleased to invite interested healthcare community members to the “Summer Concert Series” on Distributed Population Queries Virtuosos in the field will be presenting their work related to distributed population queries, which can be used for research, quality measures, syndromic surveillance and many other applications. The results of distributed... Continue reading

By Rich Elmore, Initiative Coordinator – Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology This August, ONC will be sponsoring the “Summer Concert Series” on the state-of-the-art of distributed population queries. The “Summer Concert Series” webinar presentations will provide tremendous insight from a real-world perspective to interested stakeholders on... Continue reading

As a reminder, the Query for Digital Certificate Use Case for Direct Project is now open for voting to reach consensus. If you have not done so yet, please provide your vote on the Consensus Wiki Page. The voting period will end by 11:59PM ET on Sunday, July 17th, 2011.... Continue reading

All, Since the Implementation Guide ballot process began in mid-May, the CDA Harmonization and Documentation Workgroups have been diligently working to review and resolve the resulting 276 negative and 278 affirmative comments (544 comments total) received from the community. Through the hard work and commitment of our volunteers, the ballot... Continue reading

As a reminder to those of you participating in the Provider Directory Initiative, we are operating on an ambitious 3 week timeline to complete standards harmonization for the Query for Digital Certificate Use Case. I want to highlight key activities where subject matter expertise is critical to meeting our timeline:... Continue reading

All, Many of you are familiar with the CDA Consolidation effort, which has recently been focused on the Consolidated Implementation Guide ballot reconciliation process. Since the Implementation Guide ballot process began in mid-May, the CDA Harmonization and Documentation Workgroups have been diligently working to review and resolve the resulting 276... Continue reading

All, The S&I Framework Face to Face meeting has come and gone but the progress achieved is still fresh in my mind. It was an eventful week with over 170 registered participants traveling to Washington D.C. to participate in multiple S&I Framework initiative workgroup meetings. The amount of work accomplished... Continue reading

First, our apologies for the delay in providing you a final location for the 1st S&I Framework Face to Face Meeting. Due to overwhelming interest by stakeholders throughout the country, we have had to find suitable space to accommodate the expected number of volunteers who will be coming to Washington... Continue reading

Asthe date for the S&I Framework meeting draws close, we wanted to let you know that we have created a montage of staff member pictures for you, to help you in identifying S&I Framework staff members. The S&I Framework team will be available on-site to assist you with any requirements... Continue reading

I just wanted to let everyone know that we will also be using the Twitter hashtag #siframeworkF2F during the meeting for those who are interested in live-tweeting the meeting. We will be tweeting live as the meeting progresses with updates and information on where the discussions go. Feel free to... Continue reading

For those of you who will be attending the S&I Framework F2F, myself and the entire ONC staff and contractor team look forward to the opportunity to work with you and provide support as you continue your critical work. I wanted to blog about both our meeting schedule and key... Continue reading

Due to a high volume of interest, we are nearing capacity of our reserved facility in Washington D.C. for the S&I Framework F2F meeting. As such, we will have to close registration as of COB today to accomodate all meeting requests. If you are still interested in attending the meeting,... Continue reading

Just as a reminder to all our participants in the S&I Framework, the final date to register for the S&I Framework Face-to-Face meeting in Washington D.C. is June 7th by 5:00 PM. Registration is available here Please make sure you register by that time so that we can get an... Continue reading

As many of you may know, ONC has asked for comment on approaches that will enable providers and other healthcare entities to obtain and manage digital certificates that are cross- certified with the Federal Bridge. This comment period for the report is through June 5th. Due to the short timeframe... Continue reading

As work kicks off on the Provider Directory initiative this week, everyone should be entering the initiative with an open mind and a desire to tackle the challenges at hand, in the short and long term. To that end, its important that everyone review the different views that have been... Continue reading

Last week was a feverish week as we rolled out the S&I Framework Provider Directory initiative. The passionate and pointed feedback on our kickoff calls on Monday and Wednesday have helped in clarifying the scope and focus of the initial 6 weeks of activity planned for June and July. We... Continue reading

We have a critical need on our Transitions of Care (TOC) Clinical Information Model (CIM)/Vocabulary Workgroup for knowledge on data element mappings, specifically surrounding work done on the HITSP C154, also known as the HITSP Data Dictionary. We want to be able to define the key care transition data elements... Continue reading

As we continue preparations for our F2F meeting in Washington, I wanted to update all the S&I Framework volunteers on current progress as we get closer to our meetings on June 14-15. Some key things for volunteers to review prior to the meeting: Everyone should have already received a Save... Continue reading