Weekly Overseas Health IT Links – 24th March, 2018

Here are a few I came across last week.Note: Each link is followed by a title and few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.-----https://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/onc-launches-phase-2-of-sync-for-genes-initiativeONC launches Phase 2 of Sync for Genes By Greg SlabodkinPublished March 15 2018, 7:35am EDTThe Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has launched Phase 2 of the Sync for Genes initiative, aimed at demonstrating how standardized genomic data can be shared between laboratories, providers, patients, as well as researchers.Four pilot sites —Lehigh Valley Health Network, National Marrow Donor Program, Utah Newborn Screening Program, and Weill Cornell Medicine—are participating in Phase 2 and will continue to leverage HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) to accelerate standardization of sharing patients’ genom ic... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - Category: Information Technology Authors: Source Type: blogs