HealthIT Answers September 18, 2023
Can Providers and Patients Access and Share Health Data via Apps?
Thanks to a decade of effort, nearly every U.S. hospital today stores health data electronically. To put that data to work, however, clinicians and patients need to be able to access and appropriately share that data.
To implement the 21st Century Cures Act and help meet those needs, ONC’s Health IT Certification Program adopted new requirements and standards for application programming interfaces (APIs) that support the secure exchange of patient data between electronic health records (EHRs) apps.
To assess the progress hospitals have made in using APIs to share data with patient and provider apps, we examined survey data from the 2020 and 2022 American Hospital Association (AHA) Information...
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