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Introducing the 2024 Draft Federal FHIR® Action Plan
Adam Wong | September 23, 2024
ASTP released the 2024 Draft Federal FHIR® Action Plan, a curated catalog of federal agency uses of the Health Level Seven (HL7®) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR®) standard and associated implementation specifications. Federal agencies are adopting and using FHIR to meet a range of agency needs, including facilitating care coordination and expanding individuals access to their health information. The draft action plan serves as a single resource for federal agencies and anyone else in the health IT community looking for the FHIR-based capabilities being used today by the federal government.
Read Full Post.Innovation in Population Data Analytics Driven by the 21st Century Cures Act’s API Standards Requirements
Adam Wong | February 8, 2024
The SMART Health IT (SMART) team based in Boston Children’s Hospital Computational Health Informatics Program has been a leader in developing new capabilities leveraging the HL7® FHIR® standard. A 2010 Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Project (SHARP) was SMART’s first ONC funding opportunity that led to the creation of the SMART on FHIR application programming interface (API). This API enables FHIR to work as an app platform. The SMART on FHIR API proceeded to become a standard required for health IT certification as part of ONC’s Cures Act Final Rule.
Read Full Post.An Innovative Program to Expand the Use of HIE Data for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
Adam Wong | July 26, 2022
ONC is excited to announce “Using Machine Learning Techniques to Enable Health Information Exchange to Support COVID-19-Focused PCOR,” a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Trust Fund project implementing new technologies and standards to unlock the potential for health information exchanges (HIEs) to support research.
Read Full Post.ONC Awards $300K in Funding to 6 Small Businesses for Digital Health Pilot Projects
Adam Wong | May 11, 2015
Coming on the heels of National Small Business Week is the announcement of the six winners of ONC’s inaugural Market R&D Pilot Challenge? The six winners will live-test new health information technology (health IT) applications in health care settings administered by their challenge partners beginning in August.
Read Full Post.A New Prize Challenge to Catalyze Health IT Innovation
Adam Wong | November 10, 2014
The health IT start-up sector is growing rapidly. Millions of dollars continue to be invested in innovations that most Americans could have never imagined 10 years ago. In the first quarter of 2014, nearly $700 million was invested in health technology – an 87 percent year-over-year growth . A diverse array of web and mobile applications are changing the way patients and providers interact with the health care system. These technologies accelerate the flow and availability of data,
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