ONC Releases Draft Data Standard For Patient Addresses

HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on Wednesday released the first draft of Project US@, an effort to create an industrywide data standard for documenting patient addresses in healthcare.

Public comment on the draft standard will open July 1 and close July 31. ONC plans to issue a final version of the address standard by the end of the year.

The project, which launched in December, aims to create a data standard for addresses that will help healthcare organizations more accurately match patients with their medical record.