- ONC Selects Sequoia Project to Support Healthcare Interoperability
- Key Steps to Achieve Increased Healthcare Interoperability
San Diego Regional HIE project, which is receiving $999,683 over two years, will work on developing a scalable consent framework for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)-based application programming interfaces (APIs).
The research team, led by Principal Investigator Mohammad Jafir, will focus on software development and research of standards, use case and community testing, production deployment, pilots, tutorials, and population health, and consent management. It will also develop and distribute a FHIR consent implementation guide and package of open-source prototypes and content to assist partners in using the FHIR consent resources.
The UT Austin project, which is receiving $999,287 over two years, will work on developing an API-based patient engagement platform.
The research team, led by Principal Investigator Anjum Khurshid, will develop and test a patient-engagement platform to support an ecosystem of mobile applications to enhance opportunities for underrepresented populations to participate in health research and care. The research will address patient security and privacy needs using user-centered design approaches and work on appropriate data sharing from disparate sources across patients, clinicians, and researchers.
The LEAP in Health IT projects address emerging and future challenges to advance the development and use of interoperable health IT.
ONC said it is “critical that the field of healthcare innovate and leverage the latest technological advancements and breakthroughs far quicker than it currently does to optimize real-time solutions, especially in areas that are ripe for acceleration.”
The LEAP in Health IT projects “will further a new generation of health IT development and inform the innovative implementation and refinement of standards, methods, and techniques for overcoming major barriers and challenges as they are identified,” ONC concluded.
