Pew Urges Health IT Agency to Expand Data Elements, Standards for Better Sharing of Electronic Records

Pew Urges Health IT Agency to Expand Data Elements Standards

The Pew Charitable Trusts sent a letter Sept. 23 to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, urging the agency to include additional data elements and standards in its Interoperability Standards Advisory, a guide that technology developers can use to help improve the sharing of patients’ medical information between electronic health record systems.

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