Challenge Winners Webinar, Upcoming ONC Events and a Data Update

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NEW Webinar: Move Health Data Forward Challenge Phase 1 Winners

ONC will be hosting a webinar to showcase the ten Phase 1 winners for the Move Health Data Forward Challenge. The webinar will include short presentations from each of the finalists about their solutions. This challenge will help to create application programming interface (API) solutions combined with new implementation specifications that enable individuals to securely and electronically authorize the movement of their health data to destinations they choose. Phase 1 finalists were each awarded $5,000.

Date & Time: Wednesday, November 30, 2016 from 3:00 – 4:30pm ET
Register for the webinar.

Webinar: A Record to Rely On: A Workshop on the Intersection of Electronic Health Records, Health Law, Payment, and Oversight

ONC is holding a 1-day workshop focused on the use of clinical documentation—as captured by EHRs—in legal, payment, and oversight contexts. The workshop will bring together panels of experts to discuss the current landscape around how EHRs have been used as a record in the legal environment and for purposes such as medical documentation, claims support, audit trail records, and fraud identification.

Date & Time: Tuesday, November 29, 2016 9:00am – 5:00pm ET
Register for the webinar.
*Please note: registration to attend in person is closed.

Data Update: EHR Products Used for MU Attestation Public Use File

ONC updated the EHR Products Used for MU Attestation Public Use File (PUF) with Medicare EHR Incentive Program data through September 2016. The PUF contains a time series of all eligible hospital and health care professional attestations through the Medicare EHR Incentive Program and the certified health IT products reported by those providers for each year. The dataset is available in open format with complete documentation and explanation of the data.

Upcoming Federal Advisory Committee Meetings

Standards: 2017 Interoperability Standards Advisory Task Force
Date & Time: Thursday, December 1, 2016, 10:00 – 11:30am

Joint: Consumer Task Force
Date & Time: Thursday, December 1, 2016, 1:00 – 2:30pm