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 Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 30, 2017

It happens that the framework for explaining why the future is bright for HIE comes from the Wisconsin HIE (WISHIN) fall summit. They used the following diagram to show what they viewed as the HIE future. Up to now we have focused on getting EHR to publish or simply make available the data they have.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Read more… Making Healthcare App Development and FHIR Data Access Easy. Digital health developers shouldn’t have to learn the hundreds of flavors of FHIR implementations and APIs to share data , Patrick Schiess at Darena Solutions told John. Read more… CIO Podcast : Digital Transformation.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

He began with an in-depth look at the lawsuit about the use of automated bots to scrape EHR data in response to failed talks about data access. Colin sat down with Venky Chellappa to discuss why CharmHealth believes a lack of legacy tech positions the EHR vendor to meet the needs of larger healthcare organizations. PointClickCare.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

The next item on the HIE Future is Bright list is movement from "Multiple Point-to-Point Connections" to "Single Connection to Hub". Both use IHE XCPD and XCA standard CommonWell -- a EHR vendor consortium. In the case of most HIE traffic today it is for the PurposeOfUse of "Treatment". Very minor mention of FHIR.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 27, 2022

Rusty Yeager on EHR Standardization and Rehabilitation Hospitals. In the latest CIO Podcast, Yeager, the Senior VP and CIO at Encompass Health, talked to John Lynn about the benefits of deploying a standardized EHR across an organization. In a nutshell, real-time updates enabled by FHIR are the future.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2023

. “The Zus partnership will drastically accelerate Elation’s ability to build out market-leading EHR solutions to support population health and value-based care initiatives,” said Kyna Fong , Co-Founder and CEO at Elation Health.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 16, 2020

There is a fundamental difference between access requests for Personally Identifiable Health Data when a PHR requests access vs when a Clinical application or other EHR asks for access. That is that the HIE is designed for ONE purpose. For example a Health Information Exchange (HIE) that is designed for supporting Treatment.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

HIMSS23 #HITsm #healthit @CommonWell pic.twitter.com/yLIq8NBs9m — Healthcare IT Today (@hcittoday) April 18, 2023 FHIR APIs are wonderful, but they’re not sufficient on their own. It will include TEFCA, FHIR, HIEs, Direct Messages, APIs and much more. ✅FHIR APIs alone are not a silver bullet.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 26, 2017

I cover quite a bit of ground on Privacy and Security related to EHR and HIE. I cover this topic as an exercise in a local EHR, but also how this model needs to be extended across an HIE to continue to protect the sensitive healthcare information. I expect an update in a year to add chapters on FHIR.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Most use of FHIR today is as an API to an organizations health information (EHR). However what is being asked latey is how does one scale FHIR to a nation. I have plenty of articles on how a Nationwide Health Information Exchange (HIE) could be built with the IHE XD* family of profiles.

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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 IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2023

Partnerships eHealth Exchange added C3HIE , a Texas-based HIE, to its network of partners under its anticipated QHIN. Arkansas-based Conway OB-GYN Clinic implemented eClinicalWorks EHR. That said, 66% trust their health plan more that the government or non-traditional entities such as Amazon or Walmart to their health insurance.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But despite the availability of FHIR and of APIs from many vendors, interoperability is often described as “difficult and “not frictionless” according to Loyd Bittle, CEO and Founder at Innovar Healthcare. Patients, regulators, and payers are insisting on data exchange in health care.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Which EHR Innovations Can Enable Seamless Data Sharing Between Different Healthcare Providers ? Answers to our latest question for the Healthcare IT Today experts included utilizing FHIR and HL7 standards, emphasizing user-friendly interfaces, and integrating EHRs with patient management platforms.

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Redox

MARCH 7, 2024

Many use cases will continue to need direct integration with EHRs, digital health technologies, HIEs, payer source systems, and more to enable the truly seamless end-to-end workflows needed to improve patient, clinician, and administrative experiences.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Leveraging the best practices and experience of Direct Secure Messaging , Carequality , CommonWell Health Alliance® and most recently FHIR® , we’re learning from the last decade-plus of efforts, and starting with a wiser perspective of what’s possible and where to pick up the proverbial baton. Kno2 is a proud sponsor of Healthcare Scene.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie sees development of open APIs, of FHIR, to be positive, but not yet the dominant reality, in terms of widespread adoption and use. Some CHIME members are leveraging FHIR today, but not all are doing it as robustly as possible. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’” Join the conversation on Twitter at #HarlowOnHC.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie sees development of open APIs, of FHIR, to be positive, but not yet the dominant reality, in terms of widespread adoption and use. Some CHIME members are leveraging FHIR today, but not all are doing it as robustly as possible. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’” Join the conversation on Twitter at #HarlowOnHC.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie sees development of open APIs, of FHIR, to be positive, but not yet the dominant reality, in terms of widespread adoption and use. Some CHIME members are leveraging FHIR today, but not all are doing it as robustly as possible. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’” Join the conversation on Twitter at #HarlowOnHC.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie sees development of open APIs, of FHIR, to be positive, but not yet the dominant reality, in terms of widespread adoption and use. Some CHIME members are leveraging FHIR today, but not all are doing it as robustly as possible. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’” Join the conversation on Twitter at #HarlowOnHC.

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Health IT Interoperability FHIR HIPAA 60

Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie sees development of open APIs, of FHIR, to be positive, but not yet the dominant reality, in terms of widespread adoption and use. Some CHIME members are leveraging FHIR today, but not all are doing it as robustly as possible. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’” Health Care Law and Consulting.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie sees development of open APIs, of FHIR, to be positive, but not yet the dominant reality, in terms of widespread adoption and use. Some CHIME members are leveraging FHIR today, but not all are doing it as robustly as possible. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’” Join the conversation on Twitter at #HarlowOnHC.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 6, 2018

The VA was an early adopter of electronic health records or EHRs.) "It's the variety of EHR systems and interfaces, data sources, and uniformity in workflows," he said. "It's Last year, the agency's IT department published a research paper on blockchain's attributes and vulnerabilities. "It's a big conundrum."

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Note: In case you missed the other 12 Days of #HITChristmas, you can start with the first day here along with the story behind #HITChristmas or read all 12 days here as they are published. On the 9th Day of #HITChristmas we’re excited to feature, Keith Boone, Enterprise Architect at Audacious Inquiry.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The professionals that manage the information data analysts and health informaticists, for example serve as architects of interoperability, using technology standards like FHIR to build bridges between islands of patient data. Regular audits and real-time validation systems maintain the accuracy and integrity of patient records.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

FHIR-based API usage by Payers (Government and Commercial) in the next few years will usher in enriched datasets to TEFCA networks. There is a need for partnership between public-private players to develop patient engagement applications (SMART on FHIR) for better access to data.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 13, 2023

Partnerships Epic users can now run the EHR on Microsoft Azure Large Instances. DrFirst is enabling e-prescribing for MEDITECH EHR Expanse users in Canada as part of the vendor’s push to connect Expanse to the Canada Health Infoway. Accreditations NCQA expanded its Data Aggregator Validation program to include FHIR output files.

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Redox

AUGUST 8, 2023

JSON, XML, pipe delimited) and is siloed within a myriad of source systems like electronic health records (EHR), medical imaging databases, claims processing systems, revenue cycle solutions, health information exchanges (HIE), and so on. Data is often unstructured (e.g., image scans, clinician notes), comes in different formats (e.g.,

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The modern health information API, FHIR, includes the Gender Harmony taxonomy developed by HL7. Rahul Sharma, CEO of HSBlox, says that EHRs have few fields dedicated to SDoH, and that these are usually peripheral issues such as tobacco use. Instead, SDoH data such as food and transportation needs are normally found in free-text notes.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

If you’re not sure whether you’re participating in TEFCA, contact your health information exchange (HIE), QHIN, or electronic health record (EHR) provider. This includes maintaining your existing HIE, QHIN, Carequality, or other connections, at least for now. The exact process varies from QHIN to QHIN.

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