HealthIT Answers February 24, 2023
By Rob Anthony, ONC
Twitter: @ONC_HealthIT
ONC is delighted to report that on December 31, 2022, the health IT community passed a major milestone on the road to improving health IT interoperability. More than 95 percent of Certified Health IT developers met the compliance deadline to update and provide their customers with new technology including requirements to enable access to information through application programming interfaces (APIs) “without special effort.”
ONC’s Cures Act Final Rule mandated many changes in the Certification Program, including four new updates that will have long-lasting impact for patients, clinicians, and Certified Health IT Developers that:
- Advance interoperability for patients and providers through the use of secure FHIR-based APIs;
- Enable patients, providers, and other stakeholders to have...