HIT Consultant June 3, 2024
There’s been a strong push for a FHIR standard for information sharing in healthcare. Although a standard built on application programming interfaces (APIs) using data standards like FHIR is a step in the right direction, in today’s healthcare ecosystem, there’s a broader impact to consider.
The industry avoided a major health equity setback when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of National Coordinator (ONC) nixed prescriptive language in the HTI-1 rule, passed in December, that would have incentivized providers to share information from the EHR using direct secure messaging or a Health Level Seven (HL7®) International Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) structured messaging. Language in the proposed rule specifically stated that providers would be penalized...
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