EHR Intelligence January 27, 2021
API adoption can streamline patient access to data, promote the use of clinical decision support tools, and boost both interoperability and patient data exchange between providers.
Application programming interface (API) adoption in healthcare will give clinicians and patients access to patient data and allow third-party applications access patient information and boost patient care, according to Ben Moscovitch, project director of Health Information Technology at Pew Charitable Trusts.
Although EHR adoption is becoming more widespread throughout the healthcare industry, interoperability and patient data sharing still pose challenges to providers.
As a result, a portion of the ONC final rule calls on medical providers and device developers to promote patient data access using third-party apps and APIs.
ONC proposed to adopt the...
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