In 2020, the Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients (CRISP) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC) were awarded funding through ONC’s Leading Edge Acceleration Projects (LEAP) in Health IT program. The award aimed to address one of a few special areas of interest, Advancing Registry Infrastructure for a Modern API-based Health IT Ecosystem.
CRISP and ACC’s LEAP project, “Development and Testing of Data Sharing Functionality for Health System Participating in National Cardiovascular Disease Registries,” was designed to advance the health IT ecosystem through the accelerated adoption of modern standards — such as Health Level Seven International (HL7) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) — both in the acquisition of clinical data for registry submission as well as the subsequent use of clinical data to improve care decisions.
