HealthIT Answers December 17, 2023
Researchers, developers, and clinicians have new tools to help them access high-quality electronic health record (EHR) data more effectively. A 2020 ONC Leading Edge Acceleration Project (LEAP) in Health IT awardee, MedStar Health Research Institute, in collaboration with the Georgetown University Medical Center and HealthLab, developed two new data tools as part of MedStar’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR) Factories: An Evolving Digital Architecture to Scale Health Research project. The project team developed FHIR Factories, which are enhanced data platforms (or data factories) that provide researchers the ability to easily access data in standardized formats and to conduct at-scale extraction and analysis. These data factories use FHIR to transform data into actionable knowledge that is accessible via application programming interfaces...