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Health Wizz pilots blockchain and FHIR mobile app for EHRs

Mobi Health News

Health Wizz has updated and is piloting its unusual blockchain- and FHIR-enabled EHR aggregator mobile app, which uses blockchain to tokenize data, enabling patients to securely aggregate, organize, share, donate and/or trade their medical records.

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DrChrono's open FHIR API lets patients add their EHR to Apple Health Records

Mobi Health News

With a single authentication, iPhone owners whose providers use DrChrono's OnPatient will be able to consolidate their records within Apple's PHR.

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Sharing medical records won’t work

KevinMD

Central to this goal is the implementation of fast health care interoperability resources (FHIR). FHIR allows one EHR to directly query and pull information from another EHR, and is based on the belief that medical charts […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.

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FHIR will support EHR data sharing in Beth Israel, Lahey merger, CIO John Halamka says

Mobi Health News

But as with most providers, they’re operating with a wide range of EHR vendors and versions. BOSTON — Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Lahey Health, along with three other hospitals, are currently in the midst of a mega-merger to bring the organizations under one umbrella.

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MeldRx Is Making Healthcare App Development and FHIR Data Access Easy

Healthcare IT Today

They assume that there must be some easy EHR API they can tap into that will provide them with the data access they need. Or maybe they hear about this new more modern FHIR standard that will give them access to that data. I also asked Schiess why a developer wouldn’t just connect to the EHR directly.

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Security Vulnerabilities in FHIR implementations

Health Intersections

There’s a new report out that finds lots of security vulnerabilities in FHIR implementations, both client and server. Unforunately, the media write up isn’t entirely accurate: In fact, every tested FHIR app enabled API access to patient health data belonging to other individuals.

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I Helped Accelerate FHIR, It’s Time to Scale

Healthcare IT Today

Four years ago, we reached a milestone when leaders from three federal entities announced landmark healthcare technology regulations centered around a clinical data-sharing standard called Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource, or FHIR (pronounced “fire”). Rate limiting is not inherent to the FHIR standards.

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