What if EHRs offered the same functionality and ease of use as a smartphone, allowing users to add or remove various apps based on the needs of a hospital or a provider?
Two Boston-based bioinformatics researchers believe that will be the future of EHR interoperability thanks to a provision of the 21st Century Cures Act that requires health IT products to have application programming interfaces (APIs)—an advancement that could change the dynamic between hospitals, IT vendors and researchers.
