New standards on network interoperability will help the agency respond more effectively to a future pandemic.

ONC officials have launched a challenge to industry stakeholders to build FHIR-based servers and then see if they can be hacked.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has launched a pair of cash prize contests for health IT developers building apps using the increasingly popular electronic health record standard Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources — better known as FHIR.