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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.


ONC Launches New HITAC Adopted Standards Task Force

By Josianne Charles, Liz Turi, Scott Bohon, & Mike Berry – Recently the ONC launched the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC) Adopted Standards Task Force to review and make recommendations on the existing set of ONC-adopted standards and implementation specifications.



APIs for Research: Perspectives from App Developers and Data Integrators

By Mera Choi, Stephanie Garcia, Chelsea Richwine, Christian Johnson, & Brittney Boakye – In ONC’s “App Developer and Data Integrator Perspectives” report – the third in the “Accelerating APIs” report series – we assess the current landscape of API-based health information exchange in a rapidly evolving electronic health data ecosystem.