In a May 4, 2021 blog post on the HealthIT.gov website, Steven Posnack, Deputy National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at ONC announced that the Roadmap released in final form in 2015 will no longer guide policy development on information blocking, reducing provider burden, and nationwide electronic information exchange.
"On the technical side, the Roadmap set the stage for regulatory and industry investment around the HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) standard and application programming interfaces," Posnack wrote. "(It) spoke to the need for what is now the United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) standard, and laid out a vision for patients and their care teams to have greater, more convenient access to electronic health information."
The Roadmap set milestones for three three-year periods, 2015-2017, 2018-2020 and 2021-2024. Posnack wrote that in part the decision to retire the Roadmap was that the future as envisioned in the plan has become reality. However another reason for retiring the plan was the reality that it was no longer driving the work of the ONC.
In its place is the 21st Century Cures Act and its implementing rules together with the 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, and the Health IT Advisory Committee (HITAC) would set the priorities for the agency.
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