Healthcare IT News July 11, 2017
National coordinator Donald Rucker said the agency is researching open APIs, such as those used by Facebook and Twitter, to advance health information sharing.
Top leaders at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT offered a taste of what ONC’s main priorities are in the near-term and suggested where the agency is headed in the future.
“When you think about what’s left, it’s the hard stuff,” National Coordinator Donald Rucker, MD, said during a press call on Tuesday morning. “Interoperability is an extremely tough issue.”
Rucker said ONC is looking to modern computing tactics — notably open application programming interfaces that Silicon Valley companies such as Facebook and Twitter commonly deploy — to advance EHR interoperability.
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