ONC Outlines Plan to Make better the Data Standards, Big Data Analytics

ONC's plan involves empowering health data interoperability to support better data standards and big data analytics.

ONC has proposed various pieces of legislation promoting better and more effective data standards for health information exchange, which would assist to support the use of healthcare big data analytics to make better the patient care.

In accordance to a recent blog post published by ONC’s Karen Desalvo and Lisa Lewis, the agency has proposed various pieces of legislation in an effort to keep pace with the quick evolution of healthcare IT. This legislation covers 4 main categories, primarily centering on health information exchange and interoperability.

First, ONC seeks to eliminate health information blocking, a practice that purportedly  keeps data in just one health network or one technology vendor’s hands. Information blocking seriously hinders patient care, however, because it keeps all essential providers from seeing a the full scope of patient information, potentially causing them to perform repetitive procedures or even making care decisions based off of limited information.