By Wes Barker & Wei Chang – The ONC Cures Act Final Rule (Cures Rule) supports patients’ and providers’ access to electronic health information through Health Level Seven (HL7®) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) application programming interfaces (APIs).
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By Keith Carlson – With Health Level Seven (HL7®) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) application programming interfaces (APIs) now widely available across the United States, health IT developers and application developers should keep up-to-date on API security work and practice good API security hygiene when implementing applications and tools that leverage FHIR APIs.
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By Jawanna Henry & Wei Chang – Complete and accurate information on a patient’s social determinants of health, including specific needs related to food, housing, and transportation insecurity, can help their clinicians and social services providers take a more holistic approach to an individual’s health and well-being.
By Alex Baker – CMS proposed two important new rules in December 2022 which, if finalized, would advance electronic health information exchange and streamline cumbersome health care processes by establishing standardized requirements across the industry.
By Alex Kontur – In 2017 the Health Level Seven® standards development community began exploring the feasibility of standardizing a Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® bulk data access application programming interface to facilitate large-scale data transfer between systems.
By Jason Warrelmann – Today, only 24% of healthcare companies utilize FHIR application program interfaces. FHIR, or Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, defines how healthcare information can be exchanged between different computer systems regardless of how it is stored.
By Ali Massihi & Wei Chang – With a heightened focus on health equity throughout our work, ONC has adopted the concept of “health equity by design.” Along those lines, health IT can, and should, be used to better identify and mitigate disparities.
By Rob Anthony – ONC has approved the Drummond Group’s Drummond G10+ FHIR API powered by Touchstone tool, a new alternative test method (ATM) for testing conformance to ONC’s §170.315(g)(10) Standardized API for patient and population services certification criterion.