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FHIR, Quality Measurement and Value-Based Care: What NCQA’s Ed Yurcisin Wants CIOs to Know

Healthcare IT Today

FHIR Isnt Complex. Yurcisin likens FHIR to high school-level computer science concepts. At its core, FHIR is simply a standard format for data and an interoperability framework. Bulk FHIR Data Exchange Gets a Performance Boost. No different than JSON.

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HL7 Launches Helios FHIR Accelerator For Public Health

Electronic Health Reporter

A new initiative launched by Health Level Seven International (HL7) and jointly supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) seeks to […].

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Predictive AI FHIR Integration Contest – Win $25k in Prizes

Healthcare IT Today

One of our most common questions we ask health IT startups is how they integrate with the EHR. One of the answers to this question for startup companies is FHIR. Certainly the FHIR standard is still maturing to include more data, but the data in the current FHIR standards can solve a lot of data access challenges for startup companies.

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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. Im not against vendors — some of our top vendors are fantastic.

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Sharing medical records won’t work

KevinMD

Central to this goal is the implementation of fast health care interoperability resources (FHIR). FHIR allows one EHR to directly query and pull information from another EHR, and is based on the belief that medical charts […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.

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I Helped Accelerate FHIR, It’s Time to Scale

Healthcare IT Today

Four years ago, we reached a milestone when leaders from three federal entities announced landmark healthcare technology regulations centered around a clinical data-sharing standard called Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource, or FHIR (pronounced “fire”). Rate limiting is not inherent to the FHIR standards.

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MeldRx Is Making Healthcare App Development and FHIR Data Access Easy

Healthcare IT Today

Or maybe they hear about this new more modern FHIR standard that will give them access to that data. Once they dive into the details associated with accessing health data from the EHR, they realize there is a whole lot more to it than most expect. Schiess noted how most systems only support read access and not write access.

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