ONC Project Taps FHIR to Extract Over 40% of Clinical Data Registry

Only about 46 percent of non-federal acute care hospitals in the United States participate in clinical data registries due to the daunting task of data collection. However, a solution may be in sight. A project funded by ONC’s Leading Edge Acceleration Projects (LEAP) leveraged Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) to simplify the historically complicated task of populating clinical registries and use the data to improve care decisions.