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.

Health IT 60

Health IT Interoperability FHIR HIPAA 60

Healthcare Exchange Standards

JUNE 5, 2023

I have been working on a new Implementation Guide from IHE on this topic - Patient Consent on FHIR (PCF). Preferences vs Consent Another read of the HTI-1 is that there around the definitions in HIPAA for Patient Requested Restrictions and a healthcare organizations requirements under medical records retention and safety.

HIPAA 72

HIPAA Interoperability FHIR Health Information 72

Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 3, 2016

One can't simply have a code "HIPAA" which is understood everywhere as meaning the same thing. This article is all about IHE Document Sharing, and not about FHIR. Yet the same lesson needs to be recognized in FHIR. Addressing many different perspectives including BAA, Government reporting, and special sensitive health topics.

HIE 49

HIE FHIR Health Information Primary Care 49

Healthcare Exchange Standards

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

There is some strong discussion going on at HL7 around privacy concerns, especially now that HL7 FHIR has enabled easy application writing. Although we do have HIPAA, GINA, 42-CFR Part 2, and many state augmentations. Healthcare does have some unique issues, like that the data can't be revoked or recalled.

Mobile Health 40

Mobile Health FHIR HIE mHealth 40

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. To accomplish this, Redox utilizes HIPAA-eligible AWS services including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to run its container-based ecosystem.

Interoperability 52

Interoperability Digital Health HIPAA FHIR 52

Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 4, 2017

In various conversations on Consent , including #FHIR Consent, discussions often get mixed-up because we use the terms "OPT-IN" and "OPT-OUT". That is improper definition, as it uses the term to define the term. These terms are trouble. We need to stop using “OPT-IN” and “OPT-OUT”. I want to propose a set of terms.

HIPAA 45

HIPAA FHIR 45

Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 6, 2018

This is otherwise called Consent, but many people have a very constrained definition of Consent, so I am happy to indicate it is rules for how the data can be used. When I 'used' I also mean the broadest definition. I want an Access Log, that is a log of every time my data was accessed (Direct or Exchange or FHIR).

HIE 40

HIE FHIR Health Information Patient Experience 40

HIStalk Interviews

AUGUST 8, 2018

Consumers complain about the cost of getting copies of their electronic information from their providers and Ciox has sued over the HIPAA limitation on how much providers can charge. We lean in heavily on the Argonaut system, which is HL7 standards-based FHIR communication. What are the current topics around that issue?

Life Science 40

Life Science EMR Interoperability FHIR 40

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The definition of “digital health” has not been set in stone (don’t we know it!) ” OECD found that over 90% of the countries studied reported introducing legislation to require standards for interoperability, and (wonk-alert) with two-thirds adopting HL7-FHIR, and 42% adopting SMART on FHIR.

Interoperability 227

Interoperability Digital Health FHIR EHR 227

Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

For health care, the application of FHIR standards helps mobilize data for better health, turbocharging this trend. While we read a broad range of industry analysts’ reports using these nouns, their definitions vary so broadly as to be, by 2019, fairly meaningless in terms of how they quantify these markets.

eHealth 276

eHealth mHealth Public Health FHIR 276