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Toward a Wider Adoption of Digital Insurance Cards

Healthcare IT Today

HL7 , which has been setting standards for health care since 1987, leapt into the modern age of computer standards by adopting the FHIR standard. One of the FHIR standards, conveniently enough, is a digital insurance card. The patient has control over the flow of information. Version 2.0 Medicare uses Blue Button 2.0

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Start at Consent as a FHIR Resource

Healthcare Exchange Standards

This Agile methodology is a bit more than is required by the FHIR Principles, but is very much a good methodology to assure the focus on implementations and the 80% rule is adhered to. These exceptions are explicitly recorded in the except element. Realm specifics 6.7.4.1 These exceptions are explicitly recorded in the except element.

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Open Source Software in HealthTech: Hype today or Hope for the future?

Lloyd Price

One of the early pioneers of open source software in healthtech was the World Health Organization (WHO). In 1996, the WHO released the first version of the DHIS (District Health Information System) software, which is an open source platform for collecting and managing health data. 2004: The HL7 FHIR standard is released.