ONC seeks to standardize patient addresses with new Project US@

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) is launching a project to develop unified specifications for addresses in healthcare. The initiative, called Project US@, aims to issue a unified industry-wide specification for representing addresses by the end of 2021. The move has been praised by health IT professionals who believe it will improve accuracy in patient matching and record linkage rates. Setting a single standard for addresses could also improve data sharing among pharmacies and insurance companies.