The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) joined the OpenID Foundation in the United States (OIDF; Chairman: Nat Sakimura) as a board member on August 21 local time. ONC is the agency primarily responsible for coordinating the use and implementation of the most advanced health information technology (HIT)[1] for the electronic exchange of health information nationwide within the U.S. federal government.
ONC is at the forefront of the current administration’s health information technology initiatives and is a key resource for developing standards for the national health system to promote the adoption of health information technology and the Nationwide Health Information Network initiative, known as “NwHIN (Nationwide Health Information Network)“[2], a vision for nationwide health information exchange infrastructure. Ms. Debbi Bucci will represent ONC at the OpenID Foundation.
ONC intends to pursue 2 initiatives at OIDF. The first is to define an OpenID Connect profile by leading the Healthcare Information Exchange (HIE) Working Group, and the second is to advance a pilot project using that profile. Ms. Bucci, an IT architect in ONC’s Implementation and Testing Division who leads technical profiling and interoperability testing, will lead the HIE WG’s activities.
For more information, please see OIDF’s English-language press release[3].
[1] Health Information Technology, HIT.
[2] http://www.healthit.gov/policy-researchers-implementers/nationwide-health-information-network-nwhin
[3] OpenID Foundation: “US Government Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Joins the OpenID Foundation”, http://openid.net/2014/08/21/us-government-office-of-the-national-coordinator-for-health-information-technology-onc-joins-the-openid-foundation/
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