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Showing the Way to Useful Health IT through Human Factors and Ergonomics
Teresa Zayas Cabán, PhD | December 17, 2020
For health IT to benefit health and healthcare, it must be useable by – and useful to – patients and clinicians. This is precisely where the discipline of human factors and ergonomics (HFE) serves as an essential foundation for the development, implementation, and use of high-quality health information systems and practices. HFE improves overall performance through study of interactions among humans and other elements of a system.
Read Full Post.Accelerating API and App Connectivity: Consumer Perspectives
Teresa Zayas Cabán, PhD | November 24, 2020
With the publication of the ONC Cures Act Final Rule, health IT developers, healthcare providers, and app developers now have formal direction regarding the content and transaction standards required for consumers to access their health information using standards-based application programming interfaces (APIs) and healthcare apps. Building on this work, we’ve launched a new project to help accelerate the understanding and use of standardized APIs and healthcare apps. The Accelerating APIs for Scientific Discovery project is part of ONC’s efforts to spur innovation and adoption of standardized APIs to enable sharing of electronic health information among consumers,
Read Full Post.Health IT as a Driver for Advancing Health Research
Teresa Zayas Cabán, PhD | October 23, 2020
Successful health research hinges on the quality of the data used to advance discovery and needed health IT functionality. Electronic health data are increasingly available and can be a significant boon for the medical research community. Coupled with ubiquitous use of consumer and patient health technologies and increasing prevalence of application programming interfaces, or APIs, there is potential to expand existing data sources for research.
Read Full Post.LEAPing into Action: New Awards Ignite Health IT Research and Care
Teresa Zayas Cabán, PhD | September 23, 2020
Today, ONC announced the latest awards under its Leading Edge Acceleration Projects (LEAP) in Health Information Technology (Health IT) funding opportunity, which supports innovation to address emerging challenges and advance the development and use of interoperable health IT. These projects tackle creation of new standards, methods, and tools, such as application programing interfaces (APIs) and mobile applications (apps), to improve care delivery and advance research capabilities.
Read Full Post.Leveraging standardized clinical data to advance discovery
Teresa Zayas Cabán, PhD | July 31, 2020
Opportunity knocks for NIH researchers, who will be able to leverage clinical data from electronic health record (EHR) systems with increased frequency and consistency. The passage of the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) has charted a path toward increasing access to and interoperability of electronic health information for clinical care. This, in turn, has paved the way to leverage relevant policies, systems, and infrastructure to accelerate research. In parallel, researchers have been challenged to make data from a single research study,
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