These four Phase 1 winners, out of 29 eligible submissions of apps either under development or existing ones updated with new capabilities, are: In July, ONC recognized four apps that best make electronic health information easier to access and use by clinicians.
To encourage the development of such technologies, the ONC announced the Provider User Experience Challenge at the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference in March. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) wants apps that can pull together data from electronic health records (EHRs) and other electronic sources and then present that information to physicians in user-friendly, actionable formats.
