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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HAY on FHIR

MAY 22, 2021

This will be the first post in a short series that considers a very useful interaction – accessing Laboratory data such as blood tests from a repository of data via (of course) a FHIR API. There are 2 core resources, and a number of supporting ones. This is often called a ‘panel’.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 16, 2023

The Sequoia Project, a spinoff of a prior EHR network, was chosen as the governing body for TEFCA. They have advanced the current TEFCA implementation which is based on the 1990’s IHE document exchange protocols with a brokerage model (QHIN) overlay. For the doctor’s eyes only” if you will (Bond fans anyone?)

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2024

Updates that require support for FHIR-based APIs should allow TEFCA participants to more easily exchange information directly, and enable individuals to more easily access their own information. Products Augmedix launched Augmedix Go , ambient AI medical documentation for the ED, and announced HCA Healthcare as a pilot user.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2024

Don Rucker, MD, chief strategy officer at 1upHealth , shows us in this video how current regulations and FHIR standards will actually make that happen. Watch the video for more details about pressures on Medicare Advantage plans, rules about prior authorization, FHIR APIs, and more.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

I think the most useful value-add that an HIE can add is an API that is based on FHIR. This is true of an XDS based HIE, Regional Exchange (XCA), Vendor based EHR, nationwide Exchange, and Direct HISP. Initially I would focus on Document sized objects, Later moving to more element level. Why Documents?

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 10, 2021

This morning I presented to the India FHIR-Connectathon on the topic: Mantras for Secure FHIR Development The slides are available in google slide desk. Summarized below Alissa Knight -- White Hat Hacker The New Healthcare Ecosystem will depend on FHIR APIs, but are They Secure? Nevertheless, lots of vulnerabilities were found.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

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 From there we can add other functionality, like converting those electronic faxes into HL7 FHIR, direct secure messages.”

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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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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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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Two independent projects this week sent to the FHIR mailing list their diagrams of how they are using FHIR as an API to classic XDS environments. The power of using FHIR as a simplifying API to classic environments. Our project will use FHIR as an abstraction layer for the application. privacy consent). Well done!

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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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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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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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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The ONC Cures Act APIs and the companion CMS Access APIs all require these modern FHIR-based technologies and are fundamentally designed to grow a vibrant digital health economy providing choice and value to consumers. These API protocols are known and used by hundreds of thousands of developers.

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HAY on FHIR

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The track itself defines a number of actors: The creator of an IPS document – for example an EHR (Electronic Health Record). This could be another EHR, or a mobile application. This is the ‘document process’ role in the track description Store the document somewhere as a ‘point in time’ summary.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 3, 2017

I propose that “The most technically advanced” document format be considered the Prime, with all of the other formats considered Transforms (XFRM) from that prime document. Thus if the Document Source can create a C-CDA 2.1; Yet if a Document Source only can create a C32 and PDF, then the C32 would be the prime.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 21, 2022

Code, test and maintain electronic clinical quality measures using Clinical Quality Language (CQL) and Fast Healthcare Interoperable Resources (FHIR). Applies health data standards and interoperability such as HL7 FHIR Accelerator activities and the Office of National Coordinator certification regulations and policies. SPECIAL SKILLS.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 9, 2024

John Lynn spoke to Peter Durlach, at Microsoft via Nuance, about Epic’s integration with Nuance DAX Copilot and how it reduces documentation by 50% per clinical episode. Numerous obstacles hinder true data accuracy in the EHR. Diving Into Epic’s Partnerships with Microsoft and Nuance.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Also, Oracle Health is collaborating with Valeos , providing access to EHR data and cloud infrastructure to modernize the organ transplant system. Data analytics platform Arcadia launched a point-of-care generative AI assistant to improve risk factor documentation.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

State documents define rules for collecting, storing, processing, and transmitting medical information. Unlike EMRs, requests for access to EHR records can be made by other medical centers. Healthtech providers can adopt HL7 (Health Level Seven) or FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources).

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

FHIR, HL7). The combination of evolving data lakehouse architectures and powerful generative AI unlocks unprecedented value in loosely structured and unstructured data and, increasingly, machines are much less discriminating between a finely structured FHIR document and a poorly scanned PDF—and the latter may be richer than the former.

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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 Exchange Standards

APRIL 12, 2018

Document unique ID – uniquely identifies a document regardless of how it was received (Including when received through Direct or Patient portals) Document Entry Unique ID -- A document entry is metadata about a document, including the document uniqueID. A document entry has a unique ID.

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AMD Telemedicine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Our platform supports the latest HL7 and FHIR standards, so it can be set up to directly pull patient demographics from the EHR and push encounter reports and data from the connected medical devices back into the EHR. This process significantly simplifies the documentation for virtual visits and enhances data integrity.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Here’s what he learned about SMART Health, FHIR, registries, EHR integrations, and other technology that could support digital insurance cards in the not-too-distant future. Care enablement vendor IKS Health purchased AQuity Solutions , which makes clinical documentation and medical coding software.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Many healthcare organizations use disparate EHRs and communication tools that may not seamlessly integrate, leading to data silos and communication gaps. Digital virtual assistants can then construct true dialogs that “learn” from the patient to zero in on intent and context so relevant, accurate information is provided.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

During the past year, PointClickCare certified their service as an EHR with the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), which allows the company to demonstrate compliance with laws and standards such as HIPAA. They write to me, “More than 1.2 million patients and collaboratively share clinical data.”

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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

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 27, 2018

Leaders in EHR major players, when you say “open up, you’re a closed system, be interoperable” answer is “we’re as open as we need to be.” Notes: this is not intended to be competitive with other FHIR and Argonaut projects, Rather, provide a level of focus, intent, and purpose that hasn’t existed.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 16, 2020

I have been involved (sometimes lead) the efforts to define an Interoperable Standard for these use-cases in IHE for Document Sharing Exchanges (BPPC, APPC, XUA), and in CDA (CDA Consent), and in FHIR (FHIR Consent). The vocabulary and evidence could use simple (BPPC), or comprehensive (APPC), or FHIR Consents.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Documents between different organizations were incompatible, even if the organizations claimed to comply to standards such as HL7. For instance, a friend told me that a recent conversion to a new EHR by her provider permanently wiped out years of email exchanged between her and her doctors. Progress has been slow.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

To implement a Document Consumer is the easiest of the MHD actors. So I will focus on Document Consumer actor from MHD. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2023

While many tools exist to automate clinical documentation, they require human intervention and that can cause delays. Andy Oram discussed how adopting FHIR should be a no-brainer for better public health data collection and sharing – and how that must be followed up with standards for what data should be collected and shared.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 30, 2017

These historic events need to have the full context of them, which is what a Document model provides. The good news is that FHIR has a Document model, and the FHIR Document model has a directly convertible data model A FHIR Document travels an HIE easily CDA will fade, but never disappear.

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