Healthcare Management: ONC System and Barriers Analysis Report

This report provides an analysis of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and its current status. It highlights the ONC's role in improving the quality of healthcare data in the United States, emphasizing the use of technology and addressing the fragmentation in information sharing. The report identifies major barriers, including lack of standards, insufficient funding, and legal challenges, that hinder the development of a national healthcare information infrastructure. It also explores the role of stakeholders, such as federal and local governments, in improving the system through better leadership and infrastructure. The importance of capital investment and market-based solutions to enhance connectivity and information sharing within the healthcare sector is also discussed. The report references key literature to support its findings.

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Current status of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology (ONC).
The current study will provide detailed information about the new development and
barriers that are encountered by the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology.
The barriers that are encountered in the process of implementing information system will also be
discussed.
The National Health Information Infrastructure is the subset of ONC. The current aim of
the organization is to provide effectiveness in the quality of Healthcare data provided in the
United States. Currently the use of Technology in the Healthcare sector is in the form of
fragmentation like in the case of information sharing. Due to the poor technological
infrastructure it is not possible to transfer information related to health care service. There is also
the challenge of the legal system in a matter of dealing with exchanging Healthcare information.
The major barriers for the overall system of Healthcare information infrastructure is due
to lack of standards that prevent in the matter of data sharing (Wager et al., 2017). Insufficient
amount of funding and incentives is also another barrier, which is preventing the overall quality
and safety of Healthcare service. The Federal Government of the United States along with the
local government are the major stakeholders of these information system (Hillestadet al., 2017).
The stakeholders play an important role in improving the overall infrastructure. With better level
of leadership that is imeplemted in the forms of better healthcare management, it is possible to
facilitate the development of national Healthcare information system. It is important to properly
make use of the technology with better level of infrastructure in order to improve the

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connectivity and provide better level of knowledge related to Health Care sector. This is also
essential to deal with better level of information sharing. This can be achieved by encouraging
capital investment and promote market based solutions to improve the overall standard.

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Reference
Hillestad, R., Bigelow, J., Bower, A., Girosi, F., Meili, R., Scoville, R., & Taylor, R. (2017). Can
electronic medical record systems transform health care? Potential health benefits,
savings, and costs. Health affairs.
Wager, K. A., Lee, F. W., & Glaser, J. P. (2017). Health care information systems: a practical
approach for health care management. John Wiley & Sons.