Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 9, 2019

This is an update of what is going on in Security and Privacy in, and around, the FHIR specification. This is an update of what is going on in Security and Privacy in, and around, the FHIR specification. GDPR driven activities: The Security WG has done an assessment of FHIR in the context of GDPR.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 2, 2024

The IHE-MHDS does not define a Document Repository Actor but does include architecture support for distributed FHIR Servers and thus the concept of a Document Repository is included in MHDS. For example: XCA also does not make a distinction between a Document Registry or Document Repository, having a Responding Gateway Actor.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 22, 2024

For example, GitHub Copilot is helping Greenway developers quickly refactor legacy code. He points to the rollout of TEFCA and the emergence of certified Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs) as a sign that things are heading in the right direction. So, we rolled it out to our entire engineering organization.”

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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. These challenges can be effectively addressed through several strategies.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The overall models between XD* and FHIR are the same. Centralized Administration In XDS This architecture is long standing Document Sharing Health Information Exchange based around PIX and XDS. Controlled Exchange Architecture Models for Scale Within Controlled Exchange there are multiple Architectures available.

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Redox

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Consequences for non-participation are currently unclear, although providers may be cited for non-compliance with federal information blocking regulations which, according to the recent HHS proposed rule could be up to $1 million per violation. Of note, the XCPD, XCA, and XDR profiles do not currently support FHIR natively.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The Argonaut Project is a collaborative effort between the healthcare industry and the technology industry to develop and implement standards for exchanging electronic health information (EHI). The Argonaut Project focuses on the development and implementation of FHIR, a standard for exchanging healthcare data.

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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. There may be some of APPC brought in given the functionality of FHIR Consent.

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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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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The proposed rule aims to improve the exchange of electronic health information between healthcare providers, payers, and other stakeholders and to streamline the prior authorization process for services and procedures. CMS Calls for FHIR Adoption to Enhance Interoperability in Healthcare IT.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

But the administrative costs for providers to share this information keep escalating. The healthcare industry’s steady progress toward interoperability and health information exchange promises to improve data exchange to address these challenges. Here is one example of how payer exchange is being automated today.

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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 News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

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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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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GlobalMed

MARCH 10, 2020

GlobalMed recently announced that it is delivering FHIR-enabled integration to address interoperability limits between virtual care delivery solutions and other systems such as EHRs and practice management software. Has your system changed its compatibility with FHIR versions and upgraded from STU2 to 3? Introducing DIMS.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 6, 2019

We approved for Public Comment three brand new Supplements Adding a FHIR AuditEvent feed capability to the ATNA profile. This work item also updated the Query to FHIR R4, so this supplement is focused on FHIR R4. There is now good bi-directional support for the original DICOM Audit Message schema, and the FHIR AuditEvent.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

But when dealing with all of the many things that providers do and the highly important health information about patients, something as simple as selecting a communication platform becomes a very tricky situation. How do you maintain the security and privacy of your patient’s health information as cyberattacks continue to climb?

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

A truly effective interoperability ecosystem should provide an information infrastructure that uses technical standards, policies, and protocols to enable seamless and secure capture, discovery, exchange, and utilization of health information, with appropriate controls to ensure proper and effective use.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

This bill, for example, ties the Medicare physician payment schedule to the Medicare Economic Index, which aims to protect older adult Americans covered by the federal plan and sustain affordable, high-quality care. Healthcare stakeholders are looking for ways to find support among financial uncertainties.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

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. Available from the FHIR specification for easy reading.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Where the combined list is available in FHIR as a ValueSet of FormatCodes (updated in current build ) Important background :: Eating an Elephant -- How to approach IHE documentation on Health Information Exchange (HIE) and Healthcare Metadata The FormatCode is there to differentiate 'technical format'. is one FormatCode.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

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 health information technology. For example, “Direct” (i.e.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

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 health information technology. For example, “Direct” (i.e.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

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 health information technology. For example, “Direct” (i.e.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

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 health information technology. After that, you can listen on demand (See podcast information below.)

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

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 health information technology. After that, you can listen on demand (See podcast information below.)

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

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 health information technology. After that, you can listen on demand (See podcast information below.)

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 16, 2020

For example a Health Information Exchange (HIE) that is designed for supporting Treatment. It is being considered to be added to SMART-on-FHIR , but is not fundamental there. Today a custodian trusting SMART-on-FHIR must presume Purpose from the indirect means. Let me explain.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

To seamlessly obtain information from various systems, healthcare data exchange standards are essential. Healthtech providers can adopt HL7 (Health Level Seven) or FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources). HL7 has various versions, with CDA being the most widespread.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 3, 2016

Some examples where BPPC are used: Connecticut HIE: For release of Privileged Care information, a consent document SHALL be registered with HITE-CT in the form of a BPPC conformant document using the Opt-in for Legally Protected Data (ALL) policy. This article is all about IHE Document Sharing, and not about FHIR. 38571.2.1.3.2

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Redox

MAY 10, 2018

HL7 was created in 1987 to provide a framework and standards for the exchange and retrieval of electronic health information. It’s worth noting that HL7 has also introduced FHIR® (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources), a standard with a more modern communication structure that is currently in a trial use stage.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 4, 2018

Another example is only documents covering the last 6 months by specifying a StartTimeFrom and leaving open the stop time. IHE FormatCodes are mandatory In Wisconsin we have Interoperability What is MHD beyond XDS-on-FHIR? Thus one can ask for documents covering treatment prior to 1998. Likely both.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Eden Avraham-Katz, VP of Legal & Compliance at 1upHealth While I appreciate the efforts to simplify the prior authorization process with FHIR APIs, the underlying issues with prior authorization are fundamentally systemic. For example, menopause care management currently does not have a viable reimbursement pathway.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 12, 2024

What we’re seeing is more companies leverage things like wearable data, glucose monitor data to learn more about users to improve both preventative health and care for chronic conditions throughout the care journey.

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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. The Argonaut Project is an initiative dedicated to accelerating the development and adoption of HL7's Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources.

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Health Data FHIR Interoperability EHR 93

Lloyd Price

JUNE 26, 2018

Medical Records on iPhone - Apple already allows iPhone users to store health information gathered by the Apple Watch and other connected devices in its Health app, but this is the first time a system for retrieving records from a variety of medical providers has been launched on a smartphone.

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