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HHS' final interoperability rules standardize APIs for patient health data access through apps

Mobi Health News

CMS-regulated payers will begin supporting HL7 FHIR APIs next year, allowing third-party developers to include claims data and other patient health information in their apps.

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Microsoft unveils Azure IoT Connector for FHIR, to help with RPM security

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Microsoft is previewing its new Azure IoT Connector for FHIR, an API feature that enables healthcare organizations to scale secure connectivity for an array of devices streaming protected health information. WHY IT MATTERS. "Developers have to build their own secure pipelines from scratch. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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QHINs, Health Data Exchange, FHIR, AI and More with CommonWell Health Alliance

Healthcare IT Today

Along with these important updates, we also asked Liz Buckle, Director of Product at CommonWell Health Alliance , to talk about their work on CommonWell 2.0 Plus, Buckle shares with us a bit about how they’re approaching FHIR and what role that’s going to play for CommonWell going forward. and their journey to TEFCA.

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Security Vulnerabilities in FHIR implementations

Health Intersections

There’s a new report out that finds lots of security vulnerabilities in FHIR implementations, both client and server. Unforunately, the media write up isn’t entirely accurate: In fact, every tested FHIR app enabled API access to patient health data belonging to other individuals.

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MeldRx Is Making Healthcare App Development and FHIR Data Access Easy

Healthcare IT Today

They assume that there must be some easy EHR API they can tap into that will provide them with the data access they need. Or maybe they hear about this new more modern FHIR standard that will give them access to that data. Schiess also shared the wide variety of potential users he sees for this product.

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I Helped Accelerate FHIR, It’s Time to Scale

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Shannon West, Chief Product Officer at Datavant Since the dawn of electronic medical records, American healthcare delivery systems have traced a winding path toward the dream of seamless and timely health data interoperability. Rate limiting is not inherent to the FHIR standards.

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HealthEx Raises $14M Led by General Catalyst to Empower Patients and Health Systems to Do More with Health Data

Healthcare IT Today

The company will scale development to simplify integrating the patient voice across all healthcare activities, while simultaneously automating the manual burden of security and compliance processes needed in the increasingly complex landscape of health data access.