Most vendors now using APIs to expand EHR functionality, says ONC

ONC indicated in a HealthIT Buzz blog on Thursday that the study published in JAMIA last month not only showed high levels of adoption of the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard among the healthcare technology companies surveyed, but EHR companies implemented standards-based APIs and made them available to third-party users “well before” the December 31, 2022, deadline requiring that they use HL7’s FHIR standard for certified APIs.