Healthcare IT News January 10, 2018
The nonprofit is asking Health IT to define the elements used in application programming interfaces and consider adding information from medical devices, genomic data and social determinants.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT should expand data available to patients and providers via APIs, going beyond common clinical data sets, Pew Charitable Trusts Manager of Health Information Technology Ben Moscovitch told ONC Chief Donald Rucker, MD, in a letter.
To Moscovitch, while CCDs contain key information on patient medical histories like allergies and medication, they omit essential data relevant to care.
[Also: ONC’s draft interoperability framework floats ‘network of networks’ concept]
Under the 21st Century Cures Act, the ONC is required to support API development to help health...
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