Precision Medicine Initiative To Invest In Interoperability As ONC Lays Out Draft Roadmap

President Barack Obama pledged Friday (Jan. 30) to include $5 million in his 2016 budget request to support the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology's efforts around interoperability as the ONC simultaneously unveiled a draft roadmap including a goal of allowing individuals and providers to send, receive, find and use a common set of electronic clinical information nationally by the end of 2017. As the administration and the private sector accelerate efforts to move providers to alternative...