On the Tsunami of Consumer Health Apps Headed Our Way

[It is now June 2024, nearly four years since I wrote this post. Talk about a swing and a miss! In practice there are very few software applications actually using Patient Access APIs - not the tsunami I saw in my crystal ball. I need to do a post-mortem to figure out how I - … Continue reading On the Tsunami of Consumer Health Apps Headed Our Way

How to Comply with the HIPAA Individual Right of Access in your ONC Cures Act-mandated FHIR APIs

In my last post, I spoke to our need to handle sophisticated consent cases ONC Cures Act API compliance for 1/1/21, including patient representatives of various kinds.    The mandate has de-scoped data segmentation and redaction for sensitive conditions, as too big a lift for the industry, leaving APIs to deliver all scoped data or none … Continue reading How to Comply with the HIPAA Individual Right of Access in your ONC Cures Act-mandated FHIR APIs