MobiHealth News August 12, 2021
“I think those APIs for consumers will be as transformative as APIs have been for music, in printing, in travel, in banking and retail,” said Dr. Don Rucker, former ONC National Coordinator for Health IT, at a HIMSS21 lightning session.
Dr. Don Rucker, former ONC National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, said using APIs for sharing healthcare information will “empower totally new business models” in digital health.
The 21st Century Cures Act, originally passed in 2016, although full implementation was delayed due to COVID-19, enables patients to access their health record through APIs on apps of their choice.
“In the rest of our lives, we live off APIs,” Rucker said at a lightning session at HIMSS21. “Essentially every app that...
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