Healthcare IT Today July 22, 2021
The following is a guest article by Jeff McCool, Vice President, Digital Growth Sales & Strategy at Ciox Heatlh.
Bi-directional APIs give healthcare providers maximum data visibility and control. Here’s how they’re shaping the future of release of information.
In recent years, a fire has been lit under healthcare’s use of application programming interfaces (APIs). Actually, it has been a FHIR [Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources] as regulations encourage electronic medical record (EMR) vendors to continue to build its standards into their systems, expanding functionality and improving usability. But that does not mean the road to digitization and interoperability has been seamless, particularly as it relates to release of information (ROI).
For a range of requestors and providers, getting access to...