Over the past few years, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has sought to advance health care IT by incentivizing medical app developers with contests. A few months ago, they opened applications for a mobile privacy app development contest and recently, they announced the Phase ... Read More »
National Coordinator Dr. Vindell Washington may have been dealt a relatively short stint in the role, but he’s set on doing as much as he can in the time he has to advance to ONC’s interests of data sharing and interoperability. Washington was on hand at the Connected Health Conference ... Read More »
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has announced initial winners of an ONC challenge seeking proposals for using application programming interfaces (API) to enable consumers to share their personal health information safely and securely with providers, family members, and other caregivers. The Phase 1 winners of ONC’s ... Read More »
At the HIMSS16 annual conference in Las Vegas last week, Accenture Federal Services announced a two-year consulting contract with the ONC to help the federal government create a framework for collecting and using patient generated health data in both research and clinical care. Accenture executives told MobiHealthNews that this framework ... Read More »
