Push Button Population Health: The SMART/HL7 FHIR Bulk Data Access Application Programming Interface.

ABSTRACT: The 21st Century Cures Act requires that certified health information technology have an application programming interface (API) giving access to all data elements of a patient's electronic health record, "without special effort". In the spring of 2020, the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology (ONC) published a rule-21st Century Cures Act Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program-regulating the API requirement along with protections against information blocking. The rule specifies the SMART/HL7 FHIR Bulk Data Access API, which enables access to patient-level data across a patient population, supporting myriad use cases across healthcare, research, and public health ecosystems. The API enables "push button population h

SUBMITTER: Mandl KD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7678833 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature