Source: HealthLeaders
More than 95% of certified healthcare IT organizations met last year’s deadline to upgrade application programming interfaces (APIs) to new federal standards, according to the Health and Human Services Department’s Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT. In a blog issued this week, Rob Anthony, director of the Certification & Testing Division in the Office of Technology, said the upgrade to new certification standards mandated in the Cures Act Final Rule “will have long-lasting impact for patients, clinicians, and certified health IT developers.”