Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is also active in the industry at a local and national level, including being on the Board of Directors of the New England Health Exchange Network (NEHEN), the Sequoia Project, the CARIN Alliance, and the FHIR Foundation and the Project Manager of the Argonaut Project, an industry collaboration to accelerate the adoption of FHIR.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is also active in the industry at a local and national level, including being on the Board of Directors of the New England Health Exchange Network (NEHEN), the Sequoia Project, the CARIN Alliance, and the FHIR Foundation and the Project Manager of the Argonaut Project, an industry collaboration to accelerate the adoption of FHIR.

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Interoperability EHR FHIR HIE 60

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

We should definitely have one eye on the horizon, in a world where all data in healthcare is freely flowing between all parties who need access. However, rather than jump from fax all the way to electronic data exchange through FHIR or APIs, Turicchi suggests that we should leverage the inherent network effect that fax still enjoys. “We

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Health Intersections

MARCH 5, 2019

Example Standards: FHIR + v2 (from HL7 ) Snomed CT LOINC DICOM (from NEMA ) etc (there’s 100+ organizations creating platform standards). Thing is, that’s what FHIR does too, and it’s very definitely a platform standard. They define how things can work. There’s lots of organizations working in this space.

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Digital Health Global

JUNE 3, 2024

Statistical non-inferiority to traditional methods when staging glaucoma using Medicare definitions. EHR Integration : Seamlessly integrates with existing Electronic Health Records systems, adhering to DICOM conformance standards and supporting FHIR connect HL7 and DICOM Modality Worklist (DMDL).

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FHIR Digital Health EHR Medicare 88

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2024

Etienne Boshoff, Managing Director at EHR Enhancify Healthcare interoperability is advancing through the adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), standardized APIs like FHIR, and emerging technologies such as blockchain. Unfortunately, there are challenges in achieving standardized and secure data exchange.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

News The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule continues many telehealth flexibilities first adopted during the public health emergency, such as an expanded scope of originating sites an expanded definition of qualified practitioners. of the Common Agreement and committed to having TEFCA support FHIR-based exchange within 2024.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

Requests are then electronically communicated directly to the provider organization’s EHRs and other systems. Automated chart retrieval is performed at scale, leveraging modern HL7 FHIR APIs. The definition of quality here includes four specific pillars. Patient privacy. Exchange only the correct and properly authorized data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

Healthcare IT and EHR Conferences and Events. DoJ Joins False Claims Whistleblower Suit Against EHR Vendor Modernizing Medicine – Everyone seems to flock to judgments and lawsuits like this one. Plus, it illustrates how much the EHR still impacts so many in health IT. Where Are We At With FHIR? Healthcare GIS.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Hans Buitendijk, Public Health Workgroup Chair & Executive Committee Member at EHR Association At a high level, any interoperability must take place within the context of protecting patient privacy rights, whether from HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, or state laws. TEFCA proposes that the adoption of FHIR access with OAuth2.0

Health Information 124

Health Information HIPAA Interoperability eHealth 124

GlobalMed

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Often vendors will assure you they can integrate with your EHR and workflows. Then the telemedicine solution is deployed and you discover the vendor’s version of integration is limited to their video platform, allowing you to launch a video consult from your EHR. Imagine that I’m an urgent care center physician and we use EHR System 1.

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Interoperability Telemedicine EHR Telehealth 69

Healthcare Exchange Standards

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

XDS Profile found in the FHIR specification: I would caution against the use of the xds profile in FHIR. So the only thing you will find there is minimal fixes to cause the FHIR specification to build. This means that the xds profile in FHIR might be right, but it might not. These mappings are pretty direct.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JANUARY 30, 2015

IHE Connectathon did informal testing of Mobile access to Health Documents (aka #MHD - #XDS on #FHIR. MHD has a wide variety of deployment models, leveraging the simplicity of HTTP REST and the data model and interaction model defined in FHIR. We had 9 different implementations testing at the Connectathon. For more on mHealth

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie noted that patient matching is a significant issue for her organization’s constituency – health care organizations’ CIOs – both for immediate patient care reasons and because it is difficult to have meaningful conversations about interoperability without the means to definitively identify patients. David Harlow. The Harlow Group LLC.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie noted that patient matching is a significant issue for her organization’s constituency – health care organizations’ CIOs – both for immediate patient care reasons and because it is difficult to have meaningful conversations about interoperability without the means to definitively identify patients.

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Health IT Interoperability FHIR HIPAA 60

Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie noted that patient matching is a significant issue for her organization’s constituency – health care organizations’ CIOs – both for immediate patient care reasons and because it is difficult to have meaningful conversations about interoperability without the means to definitively identify patients. David Harlow. The Harlow Group LLC.

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Health IT Interoperability FHIR HIPAA 60

Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie noted that patient matching is a significant issue for her organization’s constituency – health care organizations’ CIOs – both for immediate patient care reasons and because it is difficult to have meaningful conversations about interoperability without the means to definitively identify patients.

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Health IT Interoperability FHIR HIPAA 60

Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie noted that patient matching is a significant issue for her organization’s constituency – health care organizations’ CIOs – both for immediate patient care reasons and because it is difficult to have meaningful conversations about interoperability without the means to definitively identify patients. David Harlow. The Harlow Group LLC.

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Health IT Interoperability FHIR HIPAA 60

Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie noted that patient matching is a significant issue for her organization’s constituency – health care organizations’ CIOs – both for immediate patient care reasons and because it is difficult to have meaningful conversations about interoperability without the means to definitively identify patients.

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Health IT Interoperability FHIR HIPAA 60

GlobalMed

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Often vendors will assure you they can integrate with your EHR and workflows. Then the telemedicine solution is deployed and you discover the vendor’s version of integration is limited to their video platform, allowing you to launch a video consult from your EHR. Imagine that I’m an urgent care center physician and we use EHR System 1.

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Interoperability Telemedicine EHR Telehealth 52

Lloyd Price

JANUARY 12, 2019

HL7 FHIR V4 - HL7 International published the long-anticipated FHIR Release 4 (R4), allowing healthcare organizations to make new leaps forward in health data interoperability. The symptom checker may be run by the user/patient or with the assistance of medical personnel, as symptoms are, by definition, known to the patient only.

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Digital Health FHIR Interoperability Telehealth 75

Healthcare Exchange Standards

JUNE 5, 2023

Tagging all of the data in an EHR is non trivial, and there is not good advice on how to do that well, say nothing of how to do it without fail. I have been working on a new Implementation Guide from IHE on this topic - Patient Consent on FHIR (PCF). Why do I express this? It should be by the time they finish their comments.

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HIPAA Interoperability FHIR Health Information 72

Healthcare Exchange Standards

JANUARY 16, 2013

Query Service HL7 PASS has produced a Service definition -- for what a Query might look like. Security Audit Log on FHIR The coolest thing to happen lately is that the HL7 FHIR project has take the same standards as above and created a RESTful resource out of them. These risks are identified in the FHIR specification.

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Redox

JANUARY 12, 2021

Second, Redox transforms the myriad of data specifications in use today—such as FHIR, HL7v2, CDA/CCD, X12, XML, custom CSVs—into a standard set of JSON data models. Every day, Redox processes millions of messages and thousands of HL7 feeds and EHR vendor API calls. Further, Redox ensures that data is normalized to standard value sets.

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Interoperability Digital Health HIPAA FHIR 52

HIStalk Interviews

MARCH 25, 2019

Grahame Grieve is a principal with Health Intersections of Melbourne, Australia and was the architect-developer of HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR, pronounced “fire”) specification that allows EHRs to exchange information. Was it weird to see FHIR as the only universal topic of HIMSS19? Not so much weird.

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FHIR Interoperability EHR Health Information 81

Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 10, 2018

I will be giving a face-to-face tutorial on the topic of "IHE on FHIR" at both HL7 Workgroup meeting in Cologne, May 12-18 FHIR Dev Days in Boston, June 19-21 So, if you are in Europe, sign up for the tutorial at HL7 workgroup meeting. If you are in the USA, sign up for the tutorial at FHIR Dev Days.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 29, 2017

Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) has been busy creating Profiles that leverage the new and exciting FHIR specification. IHE publishes their profiles on [link] IHE subset of Profile on FHIR can be found on the IHE wiki FHIR list An IHE Profile is equivalent to a FHIR Implementation Guide.

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FHIR Interoperability Public Health EHR 66

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2022

Much has been written about Larry Ellison’s vision of what he called a “National EHR Database.” To be clear, I’m not sure if this was Ellison’s goal with a “National EHR Database” or not. The second group to benefit from this National EHR Database was public health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Amwell offers a suite of APIs, web services and SDKs to seamlessly embed telehealth into an organization’s existing digital assets, such as Cerner, Epic and other EHRs, in order to enable providers to work directly in the EHR for a streamlined experience. Mend has customers across the spectrum of healthcare specialties.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Primary Care Nursing 218

GlobalMed

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Enhancements to GlobalMed’s eNcounter platform include: FHIR-enabled, clinical data integration that facilitates the flow of portable virtual health data between health information systems. This allows important evidence to be queried from and stored in any FHIR-compatible system (i.e. EHR, practice management solutions, etc.).

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FHIR EHR Telehealth Health Information 52

HIStalk Weekender

JUNE 21, 2019

A private equity firm acquires EHR/PM vendor Nextech for $500 million. A group of health and technology organizations develops open source cancer data standards and specifications that can be incorporated into EHRs via FHIR. I’m thinking of a time-based layout, for example [for EHR information]. Weekly News Recap.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Talking with one expert at the conference, they highlighted how eHealth Exchange was far ahead on their implementation of FHIR versus most of the other networks. Plus, I couldn’t resist the FHIR pun. If you’re interested in one of these areas, you should get involved in these FHIR projects.

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eHealth Interoperability FHIR Health Data 117

Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

These two dozen exhibits detail growing adoption of digital tech in health care, the growth of genomics and EHR adoption, examples of these tools from “A” (Apple) to “Z” (Zocdoc), and on the last page of that chapter, medical spending in the U.S., the highest in raw and per capita numbers versus the rest of the world.

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eHealth mHealth Public Health FHIR 276

American Well

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

A Bright Future for EHRs and Telehealth. Today, most EHRs and telehealth systems integrate data, transporting patient demographic, financial, medical and visit information back and forth between systems using protocols like HL7. Subscribe to Updates. HIT Leaders and News. A Bright Future. Learn More. Healthcare IT News.

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Telemedicine EHR Telehealth mHealth 48