Healthcare Innovation December 2, 2020
Director Don Rucker, M.D., points to potential of bulk FHIR standard to transform measurement of value in healthcare
In a year-end meeting on Dec. 1, the Office of the Coordinator for Health IT hosted presentations from across the federal government to demonstrate how momentum is building for the use of the FHIR standard and application programming interfaces (APIs).
Don Rucker, M.D., the national coordinator, began the meeting by suggesting that the healthcare sector in general should give itself a collective pat on the back for the progress made over the past few years to develop interoperability standards and put them into regulations. He said he is particularly excited about bulk FHIR standards for transferring population-level data. An example might be...