“The deliberations of the Office of the National Coordinator’s (ONC) are trying to build a platform where health data can be easily shared between appropriate stakeholders – physicians, patients, and others involved in healthcare – while maintaining privacy and security. The Federal Health Architecture (FHA) is an effort under the ONC that tries to set a platform where federal health IT is interoperable with private sector systems, and can therefore better serve point-of-service care. From a clinician’s standpoint, the ability to easily share clinical information – even entire charts – with other clinicians involved in the care of a given patient is a tremendous boon in the ability to deliver better-quality health care.”
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Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers, 6 October 2009
