ONC chief Rucker says use of APIs is 'exploding'

ONC chief Rucker says use of APIs is ‘exploding'
Dr. Donald Rucker, National coordinator for health information technology, HHS
Modern Healthcare technology reporter Jessica Kim Cohen caught up with the Trump administration's top health information technology official
Dr. Donald Rucker, who leads HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, to talk about the industry's momentum on interoperability, addressing long-standing problems with patient matching, and what could be next for the agency. The following is an edited transcript.
Modern Healthcare: 2020 kicked off with healthcare executives wondering when the final interoperability rules would come out—which ultimately happened in March, right as COVID-19 really hit the U.S. Fast-forward to the end of the year and they've been delayed into 2021. Are you concerned that the industry is losing momentum on interoperability?

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