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ONC Should Not Delay The Release Of Its Rule
Published: February 2020
Beginning with the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009, federal policy makers have sought to create a national health information technology (IT) infrastructure that allows data to flow among electronic health records (EHRs) and patients to support clinical care and other important use cases such as biomedical research. While EHR adoption increased dramatically following the HITECH Act, interoperability, or the flow of data between different software systems and among different health care actors, remains a problem.