AHIMA December 7, 2020
Chris Lucas

Most would agree that the aspirational goal─the ideal─for healthcare is an open and secure ecosystem where individual patients can access their data effortlessly through smart apps, and clinicians can access additional information from external systems efficiently and seamlessly.

In fact, the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have published rules designed for increased patient access to their own Information and guarantee a standard of interoperability across systems.

One of the foundational elements of these rules is standards adoption using secure application programming interfaces (APIs).

The leading standard for the exchange of health information, Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), rises to the challenges of interoperability and the necessity of meeting...

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Topics: ASTP/ONC, CMS, Cures Act, EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), Insurance, Provider, Technology
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