Innovation in Population Data Analytics Driven by the 21st Century Cures Act’s API Standards Requirements
HealthIT.gov February 8, 2024
The SMART Health IT (SMART) team based in Boston Children’s Hospital Computational Health Informatics Program has been a leader in developing new capabilities leveraging the HL7® FHIR® standard. A 2010 Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Project (SHARP) was SMART’s first ONC funding opportunity that led to the creation of the SMART on FHIR application programming interface (API). This API enables FHIR to work as an app platform. The SMART on FHIR API proceeded to become a standard required for health IT certification as part of ONC’s Cures Act Final Rule.
SMART has continued this important work through a 2020 Leading Edge Acceleration Projects (LEAP) in Health IT award. Their resulting innovation, “Cumulus: A Universal Research Sidecar for a SMART Learning...