Most Vendors Using APIs To Broaden EHR Functionality – ONC
Hospital & Healthcare Management February 19, 2024
In a recent move, the University of California San Francisco, the California Health Care Foundation, and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, ScaleHealth, have gone on to develop a survey in order to learn about application programming interface integrations, hurdles faced during API integration, as well as API-relevant policy efforts.
ONC indicated on February 15 that the study, which was published in JAMIA in January this year, not only showed high levels when it comes to adoption of the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard within the healthcare technology companies that were surveyed, but EHR companies executed the standards-based APIs and made the same available to third-party users much before the December 31, 2022, deadline, thereby requiring...