Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

This profile shows how to build a Document Sharing Exchange using IHE profiled FHIR® standard, rather than the legacy IHE profiles that is dominated by XDS and HL7® v2. The MHDS Profile specifies how a collection of IHE profiles can be used by communities for exchanging health information. 3 - Section 4.0

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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 Exchange Standards

JANUARY 30, 2024

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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Redox

MARCH 7, 2024

TEFCA outlines a common set of principles, terms, and conditions to enable the nationwide exchange of health information across disparate health information networks (HINs). We applaud the hard work that the ONC, CMS, The Sequoia Project, and the Qualified Health Information Exchanges (QHINs) have done to bring it live.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I have covered the vision of Data Segmentation for Privacy (DS4P) concept, and outline how a Security Labeling Service (SLS) would enable this grandiose vision of DS4P. However, there are stepping stones: The following is a slightly update on an article I wrote in July 2015 on how to set the confidentialityCode. for "_confidentiality".

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JANUARY 10, 2017

How does one put a FHIR Document into XDS? How does one find a FHIR Document in XDS? Both of these might still be needed for FHIR Documents. FHIR is more popularly known for the access model using http REST. FHIR has a Document model. If I have a FHIR Document, how would I publish that into XDS?

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 18, 2019

IHE has created a FHIR based Patient identity management system for health information exchanges. Added to this is a set of requirements and expectations around how Merging (Link and UnLink) are to be implemented. It is possible that a formal Merge will be supported, but in FHIR a Merge comes with some downsides.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The ONC Cures Act APIs and the companion CMS Access APIs all require these modern FHIR-based technologies and are fundamentally designed to grow a vibrant digital health economy providing choice and value to consumers. These API protocols are known and used by hundreds of thousands of developers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

Healthcare providers will be facing IT pressures: how to enable more people to make use of more sensitive data in a secure and compliant way, while also being economically efficient. In 2023, health IT vendors will continue to work to maintain compliance as part of new regulatory requirements related to the 21st Century Cures Act.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This winter quarter will be a lighter load, recognizing the holidays: Patient Scheduling, prospective look at FHIR R5/6, and evaluating impact of Gender Harmony. The Non-Patient File Sharing (NPFS) Profile defines how to share non-patient files such as clinical workflow definitions, domain policies, and stylesheets.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 11, 2016

The topic is Patient Privacy Consent; the discussion is if this should be modeled as a core FHIR Resource, or as a core FHIR Profile upon the Contract Resource. With the CBCC workgroup focusing on how to capture a Patient Privacy Consent, and the Security workgroup focusing on how to enforce this.

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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, 2019

Reminder that I am discussing how to scale Patient Centric Exchanges given the following challenges: How do I find all the data holders for a given Patient? How do I prove I am secure and trustworthy? How do I get data and assure it is authentic? The overall models between XD* and FHIR are the same.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

About NYeC New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) is a not-for-profit organization working in partnership with the New York State Department of Health to improve healthcare by collaboratively leading, connecting, and integrating health information exchange across the State.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

It takes time to write a programming library that can extract each field from an EHR and present it to an outside program, even given the modern FHIR standard (itself complex and evolving). These observers point out that patient data is extraordinarily large and complex. The API gap is, Bari says, “when regulation meets reality.”

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2022

DirectTrust is adopting a FHIR-based approach to making updates to its provider directory , which contains more than 1 million addresses. DirectTrust President and CEO Scott Stuewe talked to John about what this project entails and how it will make a difference for information sharing.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JULY 15, 2015

Available from the FHIR specification for easy reading. link] How to determine what the value should be? See FHIR Demonstration of DS4P. "M", because the content is less sensitive than normal, but still medical. for "_confidentiality". I don't disagree that this is a hard thing to determine.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This became possible thanks to electronic health records, telemedicine, and cloud solutions. Let’s discuss how to tackle them and explore the IT solutions essential for modern healthcare institutions. To seamlessly obtain information from various systems, healthcare data exchange standards are essential.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 13, 2022

This IHE-Profile (aka Implementation Guide) provides guidance on how to implement the sharing of terminology ValueSets, CodeSystems, and ConceptMaps. This IHE-Profile (aka Implementation Guide) provides for a Health Information Exchange Community to cooperate on a golden (master) identity for the Patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Like most of us, Andy Oram has a health insurance card in his wallet. Here’s what he learned about SMART Health, FHIR, registries, EHR integrations, and other technology that could support digital insurance cards in the not-too-distant future. Read more… Why the Future is Bright for Health Information Management.

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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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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 29, 2019

In the past two weeks I have been in large audience discussions where there is a very different kind of topic being discussed around Health Information Technology. The topic is about a vision of how things could/should be at the point of care because of successful interoperability. It is not explicitly said that way.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 4, 2018

IHE is currently working on a "Handbook" intended to instruct an XDS Affinity Domain, or Community (XCA), or MHD community on how to structure their requirements on metadata. Later I explain how to deal with this fragility. IHE FormatCodes are mandatory In Wisconsin we have Interoperability What is MHD beyond XDS-on-FHIR?

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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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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JUNE 5, 2023

As part of my advisory position on SHIFT Shift (formerly Protecting Privacy to Promote Interoperability PP2PI) was founded in 2018 and formalized in 2020 with a mission to advance safe, equitable, and patient-empowered sharing of health information. Why do I express this?

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JANUARY 25, 2017

Given XDS and XCA interactions that are often used in an Health Information Exchange (HIE), or a National Health Information Exchange (NHIE); there is no standards/profiled way to enable a point-of-care consent gathering workflow. So today, if Consent is not already captured, and needed, then data access is blocked.

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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. Given a Health Information Exchange, or Nationwide Health Information Exchange, there will be a variety of capabilities and use-cases for the hundreds-thousands of various Document Consumers. are laying around.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

You’ll collaborate closely with others on the various technologies of our health information exchange platform to implement software solutions. HOW TO APPLY: Please email a copy of your cover letter and resume to HR@transformsso.ca. We welcome and appreciate your interest in our organization. Visit our website to learn more!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Teladoc Health and Ovation Medical are among the organizations that will utilize these new capabilities. Meditech will use Google Health's technologies to build a longitudinal health data output that combines data from multiple sources using standard FHIR format. Virtual care. Map route optimization.

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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 IT Today

MAY 3, 2023

If this looks like a position that would interest you, check out the full details for the job and how to apply. As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. Looks like a great opportunity for those with experience with analyzing EHR applications!

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Algorithms based on biased data can lead to inaccurate diagnoses, predictions, and actions that can further marginalize vulnerable populations, fuel racism, and drive worse health and financial outcomes. For example, the CMS-0057-P proposed rule requires the use of FHIR APIs and essentially builds upon previous regulations.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2024

For health information technology (HIT) and electronic health record (EHR) vendors, new regulations that promote interoperability and transparency for PA workflows are an opportunity to significantly improve the experience for providers and the patients they serve.

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