The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has issued a challenge to industry seeking application programming interface (API) solutions that will enable consumers to securely and electronically authorize the movement of their health data to destinations they choose.
According to Caroline Coy, a HIT program analyst in ONC’s Office of Standards and Technology, one of the goals of the Move Health Data Forward Challenge is to help fill significant gaps in health information exchange that are having a negative impact on patients.
“One in three individuals who’ve seen a healthcare provider in the last year experience gaps in information exchange,” Coy said during a June 7 webinar on the challenge. “These include: having to bring an X-ray, MRI, or other type of test result with them to their appointment; waiting for test results longer than they thought was reasonable; having to redo a test or procedure because the earlier test results were not available electronically; having to provide their medical history again because their chart cannot be found; and having to tell their healthcare provider about their medical history because they had not received their records from another healthcare provider.” For the full article click here
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