ONC marks milestone: HRSA receiving live data via FHIR
Healthcare IT News June 21, 2024
The federal agency has been receiving performance data from a cohort of funded health centers testing data exchange through standards-based APIs, according to ONC’s USCDI program and the UDS Test Cooperative.
The Health Resources and Services Administration is beginning to use HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources-based application programming interfaces to streamline reporting processes and enhance data quality.
Since April 2024, HRSA has received Uniform Data System reports with de-identified patient-level submissions from health centers representing 2.2 million patients in proof-of-concept FHIR exchange testing, HRSA and the Office of the National Coordinator for Healthcare Technology said in a joint announcement on the ONC blog.
WHY IT MATTERS
Personnel at HRSA’s Health Center Program perform chart audits, data extracts and aggregation...