UCSF DoC-IT Awarded ONC Grant for National Survey of Digital Health Companies
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) recently awarded a grant to UCSF to conduct a second national survey of digital health companies to capture current experiences using federally regulated, standards-based application programming interfaces (API) to integrate with electronic health records (EHR).
Beginning in August 2024, Benjamin Rosner, MD, PhD, associate professor in the Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation (DoC-IT), and Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD, professor and chief of DoC-IT, will lead the survey with collaborators from ScaleHealth and Clinovations Government + Health.
The goal is to generate the most current national statistics on digital health companies’ adoption, use, and experiences with EHR APIs and perceptions of related federal health IT policy. In addition, the project team will create the first longitudinal data set that tracks the continued adoption and impact of APIs. By evaluating the use of standards-based versus proprietary APIs, understanding digital health company experiences with specific EHR vendors, and identifying enablers and barriers to EHR integration, the survey will provide valuable results to inform federal health IT policy.
The project will also deliver actionable insights to drive continued innovation and improvement in the digital health sector, ultimately enhancing the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery.
Drs. Rosner and Adler-Milstein led the prior survey in 2022, with results published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association in January 2024. Click below to read the open-access article titled “A national survey of digital health company experiences with electronic health record application programming interfaces.”
READ THE PAPER
For an overview of the findings from the 2022 survey, authors Wes Barker, Catherine Strawley, and Benjamin Rosner wrote “Digital Health Company Experiences Using EHR APIs,” which was posted in HealthITbuzz.
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