Last week, the ONC and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announced that they have partnered on a new USCDI+ initiative to align HRSA’s Uniform Data System (UDS) with interoperability standards.

The ONC launched the USCDI+ initiative a few months ago to support the identification and establishment of domain or program-specific datasets that will operate as extensions to the existing United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI).

Now the ONC and HRSA are working together to align the UDS with interoperability standards and transition to patient-level reporting requirements with USCDI and other quality reporting efforts.

As part of this effort, the ONC is also establishing a strategic direction aligned with ONC’s Cures Act Final Rule for HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®)-based exchange to better support the needs of health centers across the country.

“UDS+ will benefit HRSA, HRSA-funded health centers, and our patients. HRSA and HRSA-funded health centers will have access to data that helps us better understand the unique characteristics and needs of the over 30 million patients the Health Center Program serves,” said Jim Macrae, Associate Administrator of the Bureau of Primary Health Care at HRSA, in this recent Health IT Buzz blog post.

Moving forward both agencies will collaborate to provide expertise, insight, and guidance on what it will take to establish a USCDI+ dataset that supports UDS reporting and identify the other data quality and warehousing needs across HRSA.

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