Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)

Interoperability & HIE

Senate HELP Draft Bill Affirms Need for Greater Access to Health Data

May 28, 2019
The fifth section of the bill details provisions designed to promote easier patient access and improved health data sharing
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Interoperability

ONC, CMS Senior Officials Defend Proposed Interoperability Rules in 21st Century Cures Act Hearing

May 7, 2019
Donald Rucker, M.D., and Kate Goodrich, M.D., answered a series of questions about the government’s two recently proposed rules that aim to improve health data sharing and access...
Regulations
Interoperability & HIE

Feds Extend Comment Period for Interoperability Proposed Rules

April 19, 2019
Industry stakeholders will now have until June 3 to review the two aligned rules from CMS and ONC
Patient Portals

ONC Data Brief: Few Hospitals See Patients Active with Portal Use

April 11, 2019
Although nearly all hospitals provided patients with the ability to electronically view and download their health information in 2017, most of the organizations had fewer than...
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Standards

APIs, Patient Privacy Dominate Conversation in Senate HELP Committee Hearing

March 26, 2019
Committee members posed various questions and expressed concerns to health IT stakeholders regarding patient privacy and making digital health data more readily available