USCDI — the United States Core Data for Interoperability — is a federally maintained list of the data classes and elements that certified health IT must be able to exchange: allergies, medications, problems, clinical notes, vital signs, lab results, and more. It is published in numbered versions that expand over time, so a given EHR is certified against a specific USCDI version. In effect, USCDI defines the floor of clinical data you are entitled to get out of a certified system.
For a telemedicine product, USCDI matters as a leverage point. Under the 21st Century Cures Act and its information-blocking provisions, certified EHRs must expose USCDI data through standardized FHIR APIs, and a vendor that refuses reasonable access to it may be on the wrong side of the information-blocking rules. So USCDI is both the reference for what you can reasonably demand and the anchor that complaints lean on when access is denied.
The practical implication when scoping an integration is to map your product's data needs against the specific USCDI version the target EHR certifies to. If a field you need is in a newer USCDI version than the EHR supports, you cannot assume it will be available through the standard API and must plan a fallback. The common mistake is assuming USCDI is a single fixed list; because it grows version by version, two EHRs can both be compliant yet expose meaningfully different data, and your integration plan has to account for that gap rather than discovering it late.
The handbook · 7 volumes
Fora Soft Video Engineering Handbook
USCDI defines the data a certified EHR must expose over FHIR, which sets what your telehealth app can read and write back. The whole video stack is covered across our seven volumes; for USCDI-driven integrations start with Volume 7: agents and tool integration, compliance and vertical playbooks. Volume 3 covers WebRTC calls; Volume 1 covers encoding. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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