Healthcare Innovation August 14, 2023
Award winners to explore advanced use of FHIR capabilities and identify data quality improvements for USCDI data elements
HealtheLink, a New York state health information exchange, and Boston Children’s Hospital have won “LEAP in Health IT” awards from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
The two awards total $2 million under the Leading Edge Acceleration Projects in Health Information Technology program, which seeks to create methods and tools to improve care delivery, advance research capabilities, and address emerging challenges related to interoperable health IT.
The 2023 Special Emphasis Notice, released in April 2023, sought applications for two areas of interest: (1) exploring the use of advanced Health Level Seven (HL7) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) capabilities;...