“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…” Read the full article here.
Source: Seeking Comments on Using Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources for NIH-Supported Research – By Dr. Michael Lauer, September 30, 2019. NIH.
