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Will the Federal Government’s Newly “Aggressive” Agenda Bring True Lab Results-Based Interoperability?

Healthcare Informatics: A number of important news developments took place at HIMSS13, the annual HIMSS Conference, sponsored by the Chicago-based Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society, and held March 3-7 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. One of the more important developments was the announcement by Marilyn Tavenner, R.N., acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), that the federal agencies supervising healthcare—CMS, its parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the healthcare IT-focused agency under its aegis, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), were pushing a very “aggressive” agenda around healthcare IT during 2013.

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