ONC Fast 101

The FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST), convened by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), brings together a highly representative group of motivated healthcare industry stakeholders and health information technology experts.

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ONC PMAL Project: Creeping Forward on Patient Matching

Last week, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released the final report from its Patient Matching, Aggregation, and Linking (PMAL) Project, as well as an additional report describing a pilot project to test

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Patient Identification and Matching

The United States healthcare system is marching diligently toward a more connected system of care through the use of electronic health record systems (EHRs) and electronic exchange of patient information between organizations and with patients and ca

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Developing and Testing a Data Management Model and Maturity Scale Tailored to Improving Patient Matching Accuracy

As we move toward an interoperable health system featuring widespread use of electronic medical records and electronic exchange of healthcare information among organizations, patients, and caregivers, it becomes increasingly important yet complex to

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Guidelines for Pilot Testing of Data Management Maturity Model for Individual Data Matching

This document is intended to serve as the Guidelines for pilot testing of a Data Management Maturity Model (DMM) to be implemented in a healthcare setting to improve linking and matching patient healthcare records for individual data matching. These

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