Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is the lead agency charged with formulating the federal government’s health IT strategy and coordinating federal health IT policies, standards, programs, and investments. ONC is organizationally located within the Office of the Secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The position of National Coordinator was created in 2004, through an Executive Order, and legislatively mandated in the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) of 2009.www.healthit.gov
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Oct 8, 2026
Andy GonzalezGUEST
And it's not just me saying this.
Andy GonzalezGUEST
The certifying body of EHRs, the ONC, stands for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, they're saying this.
Andy GonzalezGUEST
If you look at their most recent ONC coordinators, coordinators quarterly from June of 2026, they specifically cite that because of federal mandate, EHR adoption is wide- widespread.
Andy GonzalezGUEST
You probably remember that, the high-tech era from '08, '09.
Andy GonzalezGUEST
But they also say adoption hasn't been perfect, and current EHRs, as ONC themselves say, these aren't my words, these are the ONC's words, they say these systems have note bloat, click fatigue, and I'm sure that resonates a lot with how you feel about current EHRs.
Firas RahalHOST
Well, yeah.
Firas RahalHOST
Look-
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Andy GonzalezGUEST
Well, to answer that first part of that question, you know, it's not naivety.
Christopher KunneyHOST
Let's ta- let's talk a little bit about what that is and how that's the most consequential for the implementation of interoperability, the impact that it's going to have as it relates to behavioral health.
Josh SchoellerGUEST
The, the ONC put together, uh, kind of the constructs of Da Vinci, uh, in DC.
Christopher KunneyHOST
Right.
Josh SchoellerGUEST
The ONC had a firm belief that we needed to solve interoperability.
Josh SchoellerGUEST
We needed to be able to exchange health information in a secure and standard way if we really wanna get the benefits of, of the electronic health record and data capture of, for patient-
Christopher KunneyHOST
Mm-hmm
Christopher KunneyHOST
Sure.
Josh SchoellerGUEST
And they published the, uh, SMART on FHIR standards.
Nancy JohnsonHOST
A new federal standard for health care data incorporated changes that the CAP fought for.
Nancy JohnsonHOST
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology released its new version of USDCI Plus Quality.
Nancy JohnsonHOST
The USDCI program sets a standard for health care data elements so they can be exchanged and used by different providers.
Nancy JohnsonHOST
When ONC released the draft version of its standard for quality measurement data, the CAP identified several areas that didn't align with commonly used data.
Chip KahnHOST
Mm-hmm.
Brian MillerGUEST
I think that in ONC, you know, the Office of National Coordinator for Health IT, we have Tom Keane, who is an interventional radiologist, so again, that's someone who's used to doing diagnosis via reading films, CT scans, MRIs, in addition to doing procedures.
Brian MillerGUEST
So I think we have two practical sort of physician leaders in the two sort of regulatory, uh, sandboxes that frankly are the greatest interface for AI.
Brian MillerGUEST
So I think that human leadership capital is there.