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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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There is also a big push for increasing a patient’s autonomy around their personal healthinformation and the access they have to it, especially via personal devices which are likely to be used in the future to communicate directly with providers, if they aren’t already. FHIR and APIs.
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Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in healthinformation technology. Now that the integration work is done it is being rolled out on a limited basis.
Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in healthinformation technology. Now that the integration work is done it is being rolled out on a limited basis.
Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in healthinformation technology. Now that the integration work is done it is being rolled out on a limited basis.
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Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in healthinformation technology. After that, you can listen on demand (See podcast information below.)
Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in healthinformation technology. After that, you can listen on demand (See podcast information below.)
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