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Data Readiness: The Key to Healthcare’s Digital Future

Healthcare IT Today

However, legacy systems often fall short of integrating this data into core healthcare operations. Implementing FHIR standards and API-based integrations is critical for seamless data sharing between digital health tools and core EHR systemsensuring patient-centric, connected care. ELLKAY is a proud sponsor of Healthcare Scene.

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EHR Innovations That Should Be Happening But Aren’t

Healthcare IT Today

An EHR system needs to make a 360-degree view of patient data accessible in a secure manner that can be made available using standard interfaces like FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) APIs for structured data exchange and DICOM for imaging.

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Smile Digital Health Closes $30 Million in Series B Funding to Progress Innovation as World-Leading Health Data Fabric

Healthcare IT Today

(doing business as Smile Digital Health (Smile)), a leading FHIR® health data fabric (HDF) and exchange solutions provider, announced the closing of approximately $30 million in Series B growth capital led by existing investors including UPMC Enterprises.

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Wolters Kluwer Health Language Platform to Maximize the Value of Health Data for Organizations Using Microsoft Azure

Digital Health Global

Wolters Kluwer Health Language Platform, a FHIR Terminology Server, enables interoperability to ensure quality healthcare data is leveraged across health plans, providers, and HIT vendors for analytics applications WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS outlined in the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Cures Act.

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Innovating EHR Systems to Improve Interoperability and Seamless Data Sharing Between Different Healthcare Providers

Healthcare IT Today

Interoperability is a public good and the industry has made progress over the last 15 years only because of the federal certification program and related standards, specifically the combination of USCDI content transported in FHIR format.

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CharmHealth Advances Provider and Patient Intelligence With AI

Digital Health Global

Because CharmHealth leverages Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), Chart Note Assist also can pull in data from other providers, even if they don’t use CharmHealth. This shifts the physician’s job beyond that of notetaker so that he or she can focus on listening to and examining the patient rather than typing on a laptop.

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ŌURA Appoints Ricky Bloomfield, MD as Chief Medical Officer

Digital Health Global

To address this, he led a team to implement the first API on an Epic-based electronic health record (EHR) that used the emerging FHIR standard, with the goal of helping patients, clinicians, and researchers easily access health-record data. There, he discovered a problem worth solving: health data interoperability.