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Push Button Population Health: The SMART/HL7 FHIR Bulk Data Access Application Programming Interface

Overview
Journal NPJ Digit Med
Specialty Medical Informatics
Date 2020 Dec 10
PMID 33299056
Citations 28
Authors
Kenneth D Mandl
Daniel Gottlieb
Joshua C Mandel
Vladimir Ignatov
Raheel Sayeed
Grahame Grieve
James Jones
Alyssa Ellis
Adam Culbertson
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Abstract

The 21st Century Cures Act requires that certified health information technology have an application programming interface (API) giving access to all data elements of a patient's electronic health record, "without special effort". In the spring of 2020, the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology (ONC) published a rule-21st Century Cures Act Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program-regulating the API requirement along with protections against information blocking. The rule specifies the SMART/HL7 FHIR Bulk Data Access API, which enables access to patient-level data across a patient population, supporting myriad use cases across healthcare, research, and public health ecosystems. The API enables "push button population health" in that core data elements can readily and standardly be extracted from electronic health records, enabling local, regional, and national-scale data-driven innovation.

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