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Explore the integration of APIs in healthcare systems, facilitating the development of innovative apps and enhanced patient data access. Learn how industry standards like SMART Health IT drive healthcare advancements and patient-centric care.
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ITdotHealthSMART Decisions Computational Health Informatics Program Boston Children’s Hospital @bos_chip Department of Biomedical Informatics Harvard Medical School #smarthealthIT @mandl
Video recording and subsequent posting The meeting is being video recorded and, as with past ITdotHealth meetings, the keynotes, panels and panel discussions will be made available on the SMARTHealthIT website.
Can EMRs behave like iPhones or Androids in that innovators readily create and widely distribute SUBSTITUTABLEapps across thousands of installs? ‘API’
Key enablers • The SMART team jumped in to use and help develop FHIR • In an Aneesh Chopra-led charge, MU3, opened the door to API access in EHRs on the basis of patient rights to data • The Argonaut project has formed consensus around implementation of the SMART API and includes EHR Vendors, technology companies, health systems
Key enablers • The Precision Medicine Initiative (All of Us) is giving patients an opportunity to use a version of the SMART API to enable patients to knock on their doors • SMART/FHIR Apps Gallery creates an open directory for finding apps • 21st Century Cures Act requires an API for certified HIT
21st Century Cures Certification Requirement ‘has published application programming interfaces and allows health information from such technology to be accessed, exchanged, and used without special effort through the use of application programming interfaces or successor technology or standards, as provided for under applicable law, including providing access to all data elements of a patient’s electronic health record to the extent permissible under applicable privacy laws;
Certified HIT requires support for an open, industry standard API making accessible the preponderance of structured clinical and demographic data, diagnostic imaging, and unstructured text notes.
Health systems and office practices can connect any third-party app of their choice that is conformant with the API without pre-registering the app with the certified HIT vendor.
Patients can connect any third-party app of their choice that is conformant with the API without pre-registering the app with the certified HIT vendor.
Connected apps can continue accessing data for a minimum of 1 year without requiring additional user action. However, the user that connected the app may remove it’s access at any time.
Certified HIT must publish and update a list of the patient facing API endpoints in a computable format and update it on a minimum of a monthly basis.
Certified HIT must be configurable to trigger third party decision support services through an industry standard API when a patient chart is accessed.
Current hurdles we will address here • Thousands of software developers need more confidence to invest in this technology • Variation in API implementations • Variation in business rules for connecting apps • Need for physicians to “remember” to launch an app at the right point during a workflow • Apps more focused on read than write