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.
By Wes Barker – New data for clinicians reporting for Promoting Interoperability in 2019, 2020, and 2021 and their use of certified health IT are now available. These represent an update to the data published through 2016 and representative of eligible professionals who participated in “Meaningful Use.”
From The Health IT Buzz blog – If left unaddressed, the social needs experienced by an individual may lead to poor health outcomes and more time spent in hospitals and interacting with the health care system. Hospitals, therefore, are uniquely situated to help address social needs and mitigate social risk factors by screening for…
Hear from ONC’s Sherilyn Pruitt on building a future public health IT workforce. Sherilyn Pruitt is a senior advisor within ONC’s office of technology and is also the co-lead for the Public Health Informatics & Technology Workforce Development Program.
By Alex Mugge & Kyle Cobb – An interoperable U.S. healthcare system depends on collaboration across diverse groups inside and outside of government, working in a complex environment toward a common goal. The ONC and CMS play different but complementary roles to advance health data interoperability.
By Rob Anthony – ONC published the Approved Standards for 2023 as part of ONC’s annual Standards Version Advancement Process. The SVAP is designed to make the ONC Health IT Certification Program (the Program) responsive to industry needs and better aligned with standards version advancement.
By Anmer Ayala – In 2020, the Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients and the American College of Cardiology were awarded funding through ONC’s Leading Edge Acceleration Projects (LEAP) in Health IT program.
By Jordan Everson & Dan Healy – In a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, we leveraged data from the 2020 American Hospital Association Information Technology Supplement gathered from April-June 2021, shortly after the initial applicability date of the information blocking regulations (April 5, 2021).