ONC: HIT Developers Need to Make Considerable Interoperability Advances
Last week, the ONC published a blog post about how Health IT developers are making steady progress in fulfilling the new privacy and security certification criteria for the 2015 Edition Cures Update.
The ONC noted that approximately 50 percent of certified health IT modules currently support the 2015 Edition Cures Update criterion for encrypting authentication credentials and multi-factor authentication, as highlighted in this recent EHR Intelligence article.
However, the ONC pointed out that “considerable progress will need to occur throughout the year to meet the December 31, 2022 deadline” when it comes interoperability. Specifically, developing standardized FHIR APIs are lagging from HIT developers, and will facilitate interoperability across certified health IT developers and clinical settings.
This will also serve as “a foundation for innovation and supporting the development of new and innovative software applications.”
Last month, we published a blog post about how health IT developers need to ensure that patients can access certified FHIR APIs “without special effort.” As such, health IT developers must publish “service base URLs” or “endpoints” for all customers in a machine-readable format at no charge.
The RosettaHealth HealthBus platform enables one connection to connect with everyone. The solution opens up a world of possibility to hospitals, urgent and post-acute care systems, and ambulatory practices for use with any health information tools, not just EHRs approved components. It’s also easier to share clinical information with any system in any community – with one connection per system.
Along the lines of FHIR, HealthBus can also easily integrate and be operational in days with a wide array of options including HL7 V2, REST, FHIR, XDR, XDS, XCA, NwHIN, Direct Secure Messaging, SMTP/POP, or via a portal.
In addition, RosettaHealth’s HealthBus Essentials solution allows users to quickly connect their systems and get data flowing. Customers receive common clinical HL7 V2 information in a standardized data structure via a REST API. There is no hosted software that requires internal staff and resources to manage, and it is half the cost of competitive solutions.
RosettaHealth can assist with any health information challenges you might have, book a free consultation with one of our interoperability experts.