Health IT Certification, Interoperability Lantern: Lighting the Way on FHIR Implementation
Wes Barker | August 14, 2023
Turning Evidence into Action
The ONC Cures Act Final Rule (Cures Rule) supports patients’ and providers’ access to electronic health information through Health Level Seven (HL7®) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) application programming interfaces (APIs). To ensure that secure, standardized FHIR APIs certified through the ONC Health IT Certification Program can be accessed and used “without special effort,” the Cures Rule included a requirement to ensure that app developers could readily lookup the service base URLs (i.e.,
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Privacy and Security Unlocking the Future of API Security in Healthcare: Collaborative Advancements and Opportunities Post APIsecure 2023
Keith Carlson | August 7, 2023
With Health Level Seven (HL7®) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) application programming interfaces (APIs) now widely available across the United States, health IT developers and application developers should keep up-to-date on API security work and practice good API security hygiene when implementing applications and tools that leverage FHIR APIs.
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Health Data, Health IT Certification New Data on Clinician Performance and Use of Certified Health IT for Promoting Interoperability
Wes Barker | August 1, 2023
New data for clinicians reporting for Promoting Interoperability in 2019, 2020, and 2021 and their use of certified health IT are now available on healthit.gov/data. These represent an update to the data published through 2016 and representative of eligible professionals who participated in “Meaningful Use.” The data can be linked to the ONC Certified Health IT Product List (CHPL) and other HHS and industry health care datasets.
This data release is a long time coming.
Electronic Health & Medical Records, Health Data, Health Information Exchange Hospitals Collect and Receive Social Needs Data, but Usage Varies
Wei Chang | July 31, 2023
If left unaddressed, the social needs experienced by an individual may lead to poor health outcomes and more time spent in hospitals and interacting with the health care system. Hospitals, therefore, are uniquely situated to help address social needs and mitigate social risk factors by screening for social needs, assisting with transitions of care, and making connections to social service organizations. According to a recent ONC analysis of data from the 2022 American Hospital Association (AHA) Information Technology Supplement Survey,
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Inside ASTP Hear from ONC’s Sherilyn Pruitt on Building a Future Public Health IT Workforce
Sherilyn Pruitt | July 26, 2023
Sherilyn Pruitt is a senior advisor within ONC’s office of technology and is also the co-lead for the Public Health Informatics & Technology (PHIT) Workforce Development Program.
1. Tell us about some of the projects or initiatives that you lead.
The program that I am most excited about is the Public Health Informatics & Technology (PHIT) Workforce Development Program that I co-lead with Maggie Wanis from ONC’s office of policy. The goal of the program is to train more than 4,000 individuals to strengthen U.S.
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