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One Way to Improve U.S. Healthcare, Lower Costs and Drive Outcomes? “Unvendor,” Asserts Dr. Harm Scherpbier in His New Book

Health Populi

Health information technology professionals charged with selecting, implementing, updating, and paying for health IT in hospital and care delivery settings are essentially the first-line consumers of health IT specifically, electronic health records. This is one of my books messages, Harm said.

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FDA FHIR Pilot Automates Adverse Events Reporting and Validation with Cedars-Sinai and the VA Through eHealth Exchange

Healthcare IT Today

To make this happen, the FDA partnered with eHealth Exchange, a non-profit health information network, and multiple health systems. The decision to leverage HL7’s FHIR Release 4 is important for the long-term viability of this project as it expands to include reporting for other drugs and use cases.

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The Balance Between Promoting Data Sharing and Ensuring the Privacy and Security of Sensitive Health Information

Healthcare IT Today

Most of the data that we are looking to share is highly sensitive health information, the kind of information that cybercriminals love to hold for ransom. A great example of this is de-identified patient data sets, where we’re able to take a large volume of data and determine trends.

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IHE IT-Infrastructure Spring 2023

Healthcare Exchange Standards

The first is the ability to exchange a list of health data locations, which enables Record Locator Services to interoperate with consumers wishing to discover the location of patient records within a health information exchange. This Provenance definition is now in mXDE along with examples and requirements CapabilityStatement.

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At HIMSS22, Microsoft and Salesforce expand their healthcare offerings

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The key to unlocking the data is interoperability across the entire health ecosystem. Microsoft took a step to address health data interoperability with Azure API for FHIR in 2019. The company's next evolution of that journey is Azure Health Data Services. More holistic view of the patient.

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Simple definition of ABAC and #FHIR

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Users are grouped into "clearances" (aka roles); this might be a FHIR PractitionerRole, CareTeam, RelatedPerson, and Group; but might be something non-FHIR (aka OAuth, LDAP, etc). A good example is Observation.category code of 'vital-signs' -- indicates vital signs that are normal health information of no stigmatizing sensitivity.

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VIP Patients in #FHIR

Healthcare Exchange Standards

The FHIR security tag `VIP` is used to indicate that a patient's health information is considered to be highly confidential and requires heightened security measures. To use the VIP security tag, simply add it to the security tag of any FHIR resource that contains the patient's health information.

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