Seeking Comments on Using Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources for NIH-Supported Research

NIH is currently accepting public comments on the use of standards for capturing, integrating, and exchanging clinical data for research purposes (NOT-OD-19-150). This is a great opportunity to hear more from the community on ways to strengthen approaches that find, share, and access high-quality patient data, while also making it more interoperable and reusable. Such goals align with long-standing NIH data sharing policies and what was also called for in a related NIH strategic plan on data science. The Request for Information focuses on the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) standard (see also NOT-OD-19-122). Widely promoted and adopted for use in clinical care, FHIR is a standardized way to transmit structured clinical data between health information systems, while also protecting patient privacy and security, via an application programming  interface. The 21st Century Cures Act also called for such computational strategies to enhance the interoperability of electronic health records. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is coordinating this process and has called for  the health care industry to adopt such strategies by using the FHIR standard to share patient data. Moreover, federal agencies and the private sector have used FHIR in various ways, from exchanging claims data, allowing individuals to import health records from providers, and integrating clinical trial management. When putting the FHIR standard into practice, ...
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