By Adam Wong – The SMART Health IT team based in Boston Children’s Hospital Computational Health Informatics Program has been a leader in developing new capabilities leveraging the HL7® FHIR® standard. A 2010 Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Project was SMART’s first ONC funding opportunity that led to the creation of the SMART on FHIR API.
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From the Health IT Buzz Blog – New research from a survey of digital health companies shows that 73% of companies use standards-based application programming interfaces (APIs) when integrating with electronic health records (EHRs).
In case you missed it, this is recent communication from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Subscribe to their email lists to keep up to date on all press and news releases.
By Gerald A. Maccioli MD – To ensure the effective and efficient functioning of Medicaid, as well as to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse, Program Integrity Units should be established within the Medicaid system.
By Meley Gebresellassie & Jawanna Henry – Last year, ONC wrapped up the SDOH Information Exchange Learning Forum. The sessions are part of our ongoing work to engage and empower communities to advance SDOH interoperability.
Supporting the adoption of health IT and the promotion of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care, here is what is happening at the ONC, including a one-on-one conversation on Health Policy with National Coordinator, Micky Tripathi, the upcoming quarterly Health IT Certification Program Developer Roundtable, and more!
The ONC announced that two additional organizations—CommonWell Health Alliance and Kno2—have been designated as Qualified Health Information Networks™ (QHINs) capable of nationwide health data exchange governed by the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement.
By Micky Tripathi & Miriam E. Delphin-Rittmon – SAMHSA and ONC will work together to invest more than $20 million of SAMHSA funds over the next three years in an initiative to advance health IT in behavioral health care and practice settings.
In case you missed it, this is recent communication from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Subscribe to their email lists to keep up to date on all press and news releases.