By Adam Wong – What started as a challenge to tame unwieldy single patient electronic health information (EHI) exports, often hundreds of pages long and hard to use, quickly became a nationwide surge of ingenuity, with nearly one hundred proposals pouring into the ONC EHIgnite Challenge.
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By Avinash Shanbhag & Adam Wong – The draft action plan serves as a single resource for federal agencies and anyone else in the health IT community looking for the FHIR-based capabilities being used today by the federal government. Feedback on the action plan is being accepted through Nov. 25.
The thought leaders in our community are good about sharing their thoughts on the issues of today. Here are the top read and shared guest posts of March that we think deserve sharing again.
By Adam Wong – The SMART Health IT team based in Boston Children’s Hospital Computational Health Informatics Program has been a leader in developing new capabilities leveraging the HL7® FHIR® standard. A 2010 Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Project was SMART’s first ONC funding opportunity that led to the creation of the SMART on FHIR API.
By Adam Wong & Wei Chang – ONC is excited to announce “Using Machine Learning Techniques to Enable Health Information Exchange to Support COVID-19-Focused PCOR,” a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund project implementing new technologies and standards to unlock the potential for health information exchanges (HIEs) to support research.