ONC Admirer: You’ve Done Well, Now Take a Break

Sean Nolan, chief architect of the health solutions group at Microsoft Corp. has plenty of praise for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information in a new posting on his Family Health Guy blog.


Sean Nolan, chief architect of the health solutions group at Microsoft Corp. has plenty of praise for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information in a new posting on his Family Health Guy blog.

But he also wants ONC to take a vacation now and leave the industry alone for a while. Nolan isn't used to seeing great work out of the government, but following his own two-week vacation, he's convinced it's time to ask ONC to "just stop talking for a while and let us implement stuff."

ONC has kick-started the health I.T. industry and there is a lot of innovation being done, he Nolan notes. "But nobody, certainly not ONC, knows at a detailed level how to turn that innovation into ubiquitous market reality. What we need now is a period of implementation, competition and iteration to figure out how to deliver on the promise."

Read the full blog here.

 

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