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 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 27, 2022

Writing from The Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference, a Collaboration with the DirectTrust Summit, John shared updates on ongoing work DirectTrust is doing to improve the directory of Direct addresses. In a nutshell, real-time updates enabled by FHIR are the future. Medical conversation AI vendor Abridge received $12.5

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2023

That said, 66% trust their health plan more that the government or non-traditional entities such as Amazon or Walmart to their health insurance. Partnerships eHealth Exchange added C3HIE , a Texas-based HIE, to its network of partners under its anticipated QHIN. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received a $3.7

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Less fragmented health data. healthpolicyvalentines @ONC_HealthIT — Grace Vinton (@HITeaWithGrace) February 11, 2024 Roses are red, Violets are blue, I went to the CHPL, & found a FHIR endpoint for you! Telephone lines to HIEs, to @CarequalityNet & QHINs. What does that mean for patients?

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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. There’s no one solution that will solve the health data sharing problem. That is that sharing health data requires commitment and cooperation.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2023

How CommonWell Started The Alliance’s inception was announced at HIMSS13 to a shocked audience – a small group of competing health IT companies stood before the crowd and asserted that working together was the way towards better interoperability for the United States. I was excited then and now I am the proud Executive Director of CommonWell.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2023

Zus Health , (pronounced “Zoose”), a next-generation shared health data platform bringing distributed patient data directly to the point of care, announced today that the company has closed a $40 million financing.

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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 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

OCTOBER 8, 2024

While that may not affect an individual patient whose data is included in the data set, it affects patient outcomes overall because it allows us to analyze the data and provide early interventions and programs. Jay Nakashima, President at eHealth Exchange Keeping patient data safe and private is our top priority.

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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. All policies are global within the HIE such that an Opt-Out or Opt-In captured at one location covers all HIE member organizations. This article is all about IHE Document Sharing, and not about FHIR.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

How data are tagged with specific kinds of sensitivity labels is the topic of my next article. Conclusion So, this is why the health database can't be simply treated as a "Permit all access." It is important that any organization that has health data must start with gross Permit and Deny capability. or "Deny all access."

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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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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

Today, we’re featuring the Senior Solutions Architect – HIE position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. You’ll collaborate closely with others on the various technologies of our health information exchange platform to implement software solutions.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Apple has re-entered the Healthcare space with their new announcement about support for a person to maintain their health data on their iPhone. What is important is that any visibility given to the Health Data portability problem is good for making changes. I hope that they evolve as FHIR evolves to Normative.

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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 Interoperability solutions FHIR Profiles Mobile Health Document Sharing (MHDS) – Published 2020-05-29 Section 50.7

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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. However, this rule is only the first step.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 5, 2021

Claudia Williams, Former Senior Advisor to the White House CTO and current CEO of Manifest MedEx, recently commented about one of the ideas she took from the TEFCA webinar and strong reliance on the IHE spefications: In the TEFCA webinar… what are the pluses/minuses of such a strong reliance on IHE specifications? Let me just […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 10, 2021

Micky Tripathi, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the US Department of Health and Human Services shared his interoperability wish list during his opening keynote at the 2021 Direct Trust Summit. Topping his list was richer information exchange to support advanced payment models.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JULY 23, 2024

Using Long Term signatures as Documents in an HIE (aka Document Sharing) would tend to be available for a long time, and over a broad distance. This specification is based on FHIR Version 4.0.1 The new work is to add an Option that uses the JSON Signature standards. and specifically the Schedule , Slot , and Appointment resources.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The modern health information API, FHIR, includes the Gender Harmony taxonomy developed by HL7. Sharing SDoH CRISP Shared Services is a nonprofit health data utility (HDU) that integrates data between health information exchanges (HIEs).

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