Huge thank you to Dr Arati Prabhakar White House Office of Science & Technology Policy and Neera Tanden NeeraTanden46 for helping ONC celebrate our 20th birthday!

We are honored and proud to support The White House leadership that is improving health care for all Americans!

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#ICYMI , HHS OCR Dir Melanie Fontes Rainer joined Secretary Xavier Becerra this week in announcing the HHS.gov Final Rule under HIPAA to protect reproductive health care privacy for lawful reproductive health care, including abortion.

Sooo.....we did another thing @cdcgov CDC Tracking Network today we launched a new HeatRisk Dashboard, the result of a multi-year project with @nws and @noaa – with this you can see county level heat risk info on a dashboard and look up a 7-day HeatRisk forecast for your zipcode

#TEFCA Common Agreement 2.0 provides the network policies and services needed to lift secure #FHIR -based exchange to its full potential!

Critical for opening up patient access and payer-provider interoperability!

People often think the most important part of science is the statistical analysis.

But they’re wrong.

The most important part is understanding the data. Who collected it, when, where, why, how, and from whom? Who entered and cleaned it, when, where, why, how, and for whom?

Pluto has yet to complete a single orbit around the sun since it was discovered 93 years ago The planet will complete its first full orbit since its discovery on Monday, March 23rd, 2178

Microsoft Excel is the most successful data science software in human history.

I know, I know, the ink is barely dry on HTI-1.

But we won't apologize for relentlessly advancing health IT to improve people's lives. 🇺🇸

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AT #HIMSS24 : 'We are all in on #TEFCA ,' says Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH as she indicates CDC is working toward having two #publichealth use cases by the end of the year.

Very proud to support 'USCDI+ Cancer' initiative to support CMS Innovation Ctr Enhancing Oncology Model and #CancerMoonshot

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Visit Health Affairs to learn about HTI-1 which goes into effect on March 11, 2024!

BLOG POST: Innovation in Population Data Analytics Driven by the 21st Century Cures Act’s API Standards Requirements. healthit.gov/buzz-blog/onc-…

In their new Forefront article, Jordan Everson, Jeffery Smith, Kathryn Marchesini + Micky Tripathi of ONC + HHS.gov discuss the HTI-1 final rule, which aims to promote AI use in health care that is fair, appropriate, valid, effective, and safe. bit.ly/48q6Gxz

In their new Forefront article, Marko Mijic and Micky Tripathi of CA Health & Human Services and HHS.gov discuss how CA is building on TEFCA to facilitate the exchange of health and human services data through the state’s Health and Human Services Data Exchange Framework. bit.ly/49FunD8

Giant in the field of medical decision-making/decision-analysis has left us. legacy.com/us/obituaries/… This obituary is worth the read. He changed the way I think about maximizing utility. Not mentioned in obit is a life-long challenge Steve had because he did not menton either. 1/

Duolingo nudges going totally aggro

EHI Export insight: over 100 individual users (i.e., provider org staff) contributed to some aspect of my EHI in the past 6 years of ambulatory care.

This diagram shows only users & tasks mentioned at least 10 times. (Task labels generated by GPT-4, based on Epic's EHI schema.)

Been waiting for this for over 30 years. Well worth the wait. Bob Marley: One Love

Roses are red 🌹
Violets are blue 🪻
We're hard at work 💪
On HTI-2! 😃

RIP Bill Post.

Strawberry frosted was an essential food group from my childhood.

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