Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Challenge of Interoperability LaDuke is responsible for helping vendors integrate with provincial services and part of that integration requires health data to be interoperable. For example, OntarioMD manages OLIS , a central clearinghouse and repository for lab requests in the province.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2021

Each of the teams with whom we collaborated did a stellar job with their pitch desks, business model articulation, and deployment of the latest technology – for example, chatbots working toward mental health and FHIR standards toward interoperability. What makes a good hack, anyway?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 11, 2022

For example, "I've been nauseous today, I have a headache, my headaches are getting worse." Artificial intelligence has really come a long way in the last 10 years from companies like Uber and Tesla for example, and you're seeing the proof points of its value. Health data is extremely complex.

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Redox

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Here are some specific reflections: FHIR adoption: We missed the mark on our HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) growth prediction. It certainly is growing, but FHIR has not picked up the steam we had hoped for in 2023. We reflected on that in our recap of 2023 FHIR DevDays. Sadly, he was wrong.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Add an ITI-65 FHIR Documents Publish option with support in ITI-65 to include a FHIR Document Bundle as an alternative to Binary. Converted from PDF to a FHIR IG. Added in conformance resources and Basic AuditAudit events with examples. Each of these new options may survive or may be removed. was released.

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Redox

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

And, while not required, participants may also share data for social services and research activity purposes. Data types to be shared While the electronic exchange of clinical data is becoming more routine between healthcare entities, the exchange of social determinants of health data (e.g.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Patients, regulators, and payers are insisting on data exchange in health care. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2024

With TEFCA, Designated QHINs are the dynamic force in the seamless sharing of health data among healthcare industry providers and organizations to improve patient outcomes. Policies like the 21st Century Cures Act and ONC/CMS rules enhance data access and prevent information blocking.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 14, 2023

As FHIR systems get bigger and bigger, and support more and more clients. meta.security = [link] HTEST -- Healthcare Test Data -- To perform one or more operations on information that is simulated or synthetic health data used for testing system capabilities outside of a production or operational system environment.

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Lloyd Price

JULY 10, 2023

Here are some examples of open source software that are being used in healthcare today: EHRs: There are a number of open source EHRs available, such as OpenMRS, OpenEHR, and Elyra. For example, the PhysioNet project provides a large database of physiological data that is freely available to researchers.

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Redox

MARCH 28, 2022

Carbon Health’s M&A activity in 2021 is a good example of how integration can be used strategically to enhance value. A solid step in this direction is to lean fully into FHIR conformant architecture. Moving forward, we will see a steady increase in its availability and use by organizations that exchange health data.

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2021

I had the opportunity to attend the session, and want to share the health and wellness-related insights David shared in his fast-paced view on the role of color in bolstering wellbeing and community looking out to 2022/23. Foundation, for example, has several micro-themes embodied in its color group like dreaming, resting, and writing.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

In addition to more robust clinical data-sharing, we will see early examples of how advanced automation and AI models can be leveraged to create efficiencies and a more coordinated, patient-centric model. This will further endeavor to cement FHIR as the data standard to support future information exchange.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Ankur Mathakia, Solutions Architect, Interoperability, Digital Health at Nordic Global Consulting From a technical perspective, there are ways that healthcare organizations will protect the privacy of their patients while still promoting innovation, especially in population health.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 10, 2019

Ten years ago the whole issue of personal health data exploded into the headlines. In one view, in the decade since then not much has changed, but in another view, an enormous amount of infrastructure has changed, and I think we’re on the verge of an eruption due to the success of the new FHIR data interface.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 20, 2022

Still, experts say that network-wide availability of patient-generated health data is still lacking. Likewise, the standardization of common social determinants and other patient-reported data (thanks to the Gravity FHIR Accelerator Project and similar efforts) are critical to move this forward.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In my last article I outlined the need to recognize that health data have various kinds of sensitivity, which informs various types of Privacy rules of access, to support the goal of Privacy. Thus Data Segmentation for Privacy (DS4P). Is the data normal health data, or is it Restricted?

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Which does not help for Data Segmentation nor Privacy. The recommendation I give here is restricted to the gross level: for Document Sharing at the XDS/XCA/DocumentReference metadata level; for FHIR REST at the returned Bundle.meta.security level, but not on each Resource in the Bundle; and for CDA at the CDA header, but not on each element.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

New and niche, these applications decrease administrative burdens and reduce operational costs in departments such as health information, business office, and denial management. Here is one example of how payer exchange is being automated today. Connections are built with health plans to receive requests electronically.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 23, 2018

FHIR is a standards framework featuring a RESTful API designed to enable the exchange of health care information between applications and systems. Argonaut Project participants are working together to modernize nationwide health care interoperability through the increased adoption and development of the HL7 FHIR framework and API.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

Cosgrove recently left his CEO post at Cleveland Clinic, where he pioneered telemedicine and virtual health in and beyond the Cleveland target market to the larger healthcare ecosystem. Cleveland Clinic is a prime example of a hospital system imagining and re-shaping what a hospital will be in the future.

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Redox

OCTOBER 12, 2023

These enhancements have the potential to not only reduce provider costs, but also prevent errors, advance treatments, and improve health outcomes. AI’s superpower lies in its ability to intelligently mine insights from the exponential amount of health data that is generated every second. The Healthcare Data Explosion.”

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 14, 2018

App Orchard, for its part, lets developers use a FHIR-based API to access an Epic development sandbox. 2018 Digital Health Prediction 2: Voice technology will be the first step to personalising pharma. Google Voice, Siri, Cortana and Alexa will finally have connectivity to raw and comprehensive up-to-date data.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Some episodes of care indicate sensitive topics even when there is no data recorded: Patient received psychotherapy treatment, patient was treated for substance abuse. Some data are only sensitive in specific context. Best example is that Sickle Cell diagnosis has historically been used to exclude people from serving in the military.

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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. For example a Health Information Exchange (HIE) that is designed for supporting Treatment. Let me explain.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 3, 2016

There are many standards efforts to develop support for Patient directed Authorization to their health data. Opt-in for Legally Protected Data (ALL) HITE-CT Opt-In for Legally Protected Data 1.3.6.1.4.1. Texas HIE As an example of how much is covered by BPPC; Texas HIE has a Privacy Policy document that is 111 pages long.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2022

To simplify the question, is Epic going to give Oracle Cerner access to all their health records? I think we all know the answer to that and FHIR and all these other standards won’t get us there either. He gave the example of going to the ER and the ER doctor having access to your full records. First was patients.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 3, 2017

As proof, FHIR Documents will re-open this discussion. Especially with the CDA-on-FHIR efforts. Example using a Discharge Summary: As an example of a document that might need to be published in multiple formats is a Discharge Summary for an Episode of Care. For example, a patient view versus a clinical view.

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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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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 6, 2018

In essence, blockchain could help reshape healthcare interoperability by serving as a next-generation middleware that couples health data with decentralized, distributed, and immutable qualities, according to a new report by IDC Health Insights. It's the lattice work or the skeleton for it," Shegewi said.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 16, 2018

While the underlying FHIR (aka, fast healthcare interoperability resource) deployed by DeepMind for Streams uses an open API, the contract between the company and the Royal Free Trust funnels connections via DeepMind’s own servers, and prohibits connections to other FHIR servers.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

For example, we all have a favorite gas station based on where we live and what our price and snack preferences are, this is an area where having different choices is great. FHIR-based API usage by Payers (Government and Commercial) in the next few years will usher in enriched datasets to TEFCA networks.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 12, 2018

Fundamental to FHIR core Provenance - unlikely to be used today, but would uniquely identify the source Elaboration of these points This is a complex problem, and many layers are used to solve various parts of that complex problem. The standards (CDA and FHIR) include the capability to uniquely identify data elements (resources).

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 31, 2020

Where health data are involved, mistakes in identity can be a permanent privacy violation. Interoperability solutions FHIR Profiles Mobile Health Document Sharing (MHDS) – Published 2020-05-29 Section 50.7 Where patient treatment is involved, mistakes in identity can kill. MHDS Background 50.7.4 PIX Manager Section A.8.2.2.10

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mHealth Insight

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

They have enlisted two of the largest medical records companies, Epic Systems and Cerner, as well as Athenahealth, and a number of respected healthcare institutions, including Johns Hopkins Medicine, Cedars-Sinai, Penn Medicine and UC San Diego Health. I dare say, no one does it better. Don’t get me wrong.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Paths to Interoperability A recent article exposes the woeful silo-ing of public health: Data often has to be faxed and re-entered into new systems manually. Steven Lane, chief medical officer of Health Gorilla , believes in unified standards. Waste water testing is a well-known example.

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