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QHINs, Health Data Exchange, FHIR, AI and More with CommonWell Health Alliance

Healthcare IT Today

This included an update on CommonWell’s new technical service provider, ELLKAY and their recent designation by the federal government as a Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN). CommonWell has been working with some of these clients to look at innovative data workflows. and their journey to TEFCA.

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The Balance Between Promoting Data Sharing and Ensuring the Privacy and Security of Sensitive Health Information

Healthcare IT Today

We talk a lot about sharing data and how it will improve patient outcomes and interoperability, but do we talk enough about how to do it safely? Most of the data that we are looking to share is highly sensitive health information, the kind of information that cybercriminals love to hold for ransom.

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FHIR data in existing Nationwide Health Information Exchange

Healthcare Exchange Standards

In the USA and elsewhere, there are Document Sharing based Health Information Exchanges. They have security models, privacy models, patient identification models, record location models, and data format models. The solution is to leverage this existing solution, and just add FHIR. Just add FHIR FHIR is a content format.

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I Helped Accelerate FHIR, It’s Time to Scale

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Shannon West, Chief Product Officer at Datavant Since the dawn of electronic medical records, American healthcare delivery systems have traced a winding path toward the dream of seamless and timely health data interoperability. For personal health records, this may be possible.

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FDA FHIR Pilot Automates Adverse Events Reporting and Validation with Cedars-Sinai and the VA Through eHealth Exchange

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Jay Nakashima, President at eHealth Exchange An FDA project aims to make it as easy as possible for clinicians to report adverse drug events and share important clinical data with public health agencies to investigate the event. The new process proved faster and easier for everyone involved.

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Transitioning Federated HIE from XCA to FHIR Query

Healthcare Exchange Standards

I already have one proposal for the transition from the current Federated Health Information Exchange to supporting FHIR, that is based on a transition from CDA to FHIR-Documents. Federated FHIR Resource Servers In this article I am going to add another step to the smooth transition. I will get to those later.

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HHS' final interoperability rules standardize APIs for patient health data access through apps

Mobi Health News

CMS-regulated payers will begin supporting HL7 FHIR APIs next year, allowing third-party developers to include claims data and other patient health information in their apps.

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