Interoperability—ONC’s Proposed Rule will Connect People to their Care...
ONC (Office of National Coordinator) Proposed rule-making → With use of standards-based API technology, expect secure open APIs to bring changes in healthcare to be transformative: control of our medications and their costs, integrating medical data into our daily lifestyle choices, better control of our medications and their costs…
Congress required health IT developers participating in the ONC Health IT Certification Program (Certification Program) to publish APIs and allow health information from such technology to be accessed, exchanged, and used without special effort. Our proposed rule seeks to support patients’ secure and seamless access to their health information through APIs and would facilitate patients using apps to get their electronic health information at home or at their doctor’s office.
Health Level Seven’s (HL7®) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) standards – one API leading the transition to transparency for healthcare consumers and patients. Article written by Dr Don Rucker in ITBuzz.
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