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Health IT, Standards FAST Continues FHIR Scalability Work as a New HL7 FHIR Accelerator
Alex Kontur | June 23, 2022
The HL7® Fast Heathcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR ®) at Scale Taskforce (FAST) initiative has officially left the nest and taken flight! In 2017, ONC spearheaded the FHIR at Scale Taskforce, a public-private partnership with industry stakeholders, to accelerate the scalability of FHIR across the industry. Since its inception, FAST grew larger and shifted focus from identifying FHIR scalability challenges to proposing new solutions, including new standards development, so it made sense for FAST to find a new home.
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Health IT, ONC Funded Projects, Standards Sharing Genomic Data for Patient Care – Sync for Genes Phase 4 Wraps Up
Stephanie Garcia | June 21, 2022
The Sync for Genes program, launched by ONC in 2017 in partnership with the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program, aims to enable the sharing of standardized genomic information among laboratories, providers, patients, and researchers by advancing the development and use of industry-supported standards, such as the Health Level Seven International® (HL7®) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR®) standard.
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Health Information Technology Advisory Committee, Health IT Certification, Standards ONC Launches New HITAC Adopted Standards Task Force
Josianne Charles | June 16, 2022
Today, ONC launched the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC) Adopted Standards Task Force to review and make recommendations on the existing set of ONC-adopted standards and implementation specifications. This HITAC Task Force fulfills the following 21st Century Cures Act requirement:
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AI & ML, Blog Series: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Electronic Health & Medical Records, Health Data Getting the Best out of Algorithms in Health Care
Kathryn Marchesini | June 15, 2022
The same basic technology that can predict what movie you might want to watch, what song you might want to listen to, or what item you might want to buy online, can also predict the onset of diseases, forecast costs of care, and recommend treatment options for your doctors, nurses, and pharmacists.
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Health Data, Health Information Exchange, Interoperability, Standards APIs for Research: Perspectives from App Developers and Data Integrators
Mera Choi | June 13, 2022
In ONC’s “App Developer and Data Integrator Perspectives” report [PDF – 511 KB] (Perspectives Report) – the third in the “Accelerating APIs” report series – we assess the current landscape of API-based health information exchange in a rapidly evolving electronic health data ecosystem. Perspectives of app developers and data integrators are presented to understand the emerging landscape of technology companies and their role in effective data aggregation, integration, and exchange.
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