Alex Kontur

Regulatory Issues January 18, 2023

ONC Supports Adoption and Implementation of Bulk Data APIs

By Alex Kontur – In 2017 the Health Level Seven® standards development community began exploring the feasibility of standardizing a Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® bulk data access application programming interface to facilitate large-scale data transfer between systems.

Regulatory Issues July 6, 2022

FAST Continues FHIR Scalability Work as a New HL7 FHIR Accelerator

By Alex Kontur & Stephen Konya – 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.