ONC 'hard at work' on standards for big-picture data about U.S. health care

FedScoop: It’s often said that data is the new oil of the age, and Donald Rucker wants the health care industry, with help from the federal government, to start taking better advantage of it.

The head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) says his team is in the “early stages” of developing health care data standards for population-level data to help make it more shareable across electronic health records (EHR) systems.

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