EHR Intelligence September 13, 2019
– Congress should adopt the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s (ONC’s) guidelines for adopting application programming interfaces (APIs) into health data and HER use, says a group of leading industry stakeholders led by Pew Charitable Trusts.
These guidelines, published this past February, come as a part of the 2016 21st Century Cures Act (Cures) and outline how the medical industry should begin embracing APIs as a means of extracting health data from an EHR.
“By supporting secure access of electronic health information and strongly discouraging information blocking, the proposed rule supports the bi-partisan 21st Century Cures Act,” stated National Coordinator Don Rucker, MD, stated upon proposing the guidelines. “The rule would support patients accessing...
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