Most vendors now using APIs to expand EHR functionality, says ONC
Healthcare IT News February 16, 2024
The agency’s national survey of digital health companies shows that 73% use standards-based application programming interfaces when integrating with electronic health records, with a majority using the FHIR standard.
The University of California San Francisco, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, the California Health Care Foundation and ScaleHealth developed a survey to learn about application programming interface integrations, barriers faced during API integration and API-relevant policy efforts.
WHY IT MATTERS
ONC indicated in a HealthIT Buzz blog on Thursday that the study published in JAMIA last month not only showed high levels of adoption of the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard among the healthcare technology companies surveyed, but EHR companies implemented standards-based APIs and made them available...