The 21st Century Cures Act Final Rule requires that certified electronic health records (EHRs) be able to export a patient's full set of electronic health information (EHI). This requirement becomes more powerful if EHI exports use interoperable application programming interfaces (APIs). We sought to advance the ecosystem, instantiating policy desiderata in a working reference implementation based on a consensus design.
Author(s): Phelan, Dylan, Gottlieb, Daniel, Mandel, Joshua C, Ignatov, Vladimir, Jones, James, Marquard, Brett, Ellis, Alyssa, Mandl, Kenneth D
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocae013