Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT declares phase 2 winners of API challenge

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has declared phase 2 winners of an ONC challenge seeking proposals for utilizing API challenge or application programming interfaces (API) to enable customers to share their personal health data safely and securely with providers, family members and other caregivers.

The Phase 2 winners of ONC’s Move Health Data Forward Challenge—5 awardees in all—each got a $20,000 award for their proposed plans involving operational, technical, financial and business components of their respective solutions.

The five winners of API challenge involve:

• EMR Direct: The HealthToGo solution facilitates the deployment of apps capable of leveraging several data sources in consumer-mediated health data exchange, thereby decreasing the number of identities to maintain and grant data to store while enabling customers to handle data sharing and making better the accessibility of data while maintaining its privacy and security.


• CedarBridge Group LLC: CareApprove is a smartphone app enabling sufferer to grant or revoke permission for providers to access, send or get health information electronically. Providers can utilize the CareApprove software plugin with their EHR system to stay connected with their sufferers through the mobile app and to interact with one another via a secure messaging system.


• Live and Leave Well, LLC: Live and Leave Well is a solution that gives both a consumer-mediated exchange of end of life plans and develops a transportable package of data about a person’s end of life plans that can be scored for goodness and shared with several systems using a combination open APIs and direct integration.


• Lush Group, Inc.: HealthyMePHR system permits sufferers to import their health information from their primary care provider’s EHR system, define how it is shared with others, and authorize electronic access. Extra features will accelerate patient clinical data sharing on a patient-by-patient basis.


• Foxhall Wythe LLC: Docket is a secure system for consumers to seamlessly store and share data with trusted care experts, eradicating the requirement for tedious paper-based patient intake processes. The solution promotes HIPAA compliance through a user-managed access approach and end-to-end encryption for all records as well as interoperability through the emerging FHIR standard.

These winners of API challenge now will move on to the final phase of challenge, which will award $50,000 for up to 2 winners based on the capability to implement their solution through the establishment of a mobile or web-based app.