Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

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. Patients, regulators, and payers are insisting on data exchange in health care.

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Redox

MARCH 7, 2024

The benefits of connecting to a QHIN via Redox A single connection for all your integration needs: Redox will connect our customers to TEFCA, while also connecting them to any other system required to power their solutions, workflows, or analytics, via a single HL7 ® Fast Interoperability Healthcare Resources (FHIR ® ) or Redox JSON-based API.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Healthcare IT Today received a demo from Rajat Mukherji at Spectrum Enterprise on how to monitor network traffic in the hospital and at home – including temperature and humidity sensors in key locations. Read more… Making Healthcare App Development and FHIR Data Access Easy.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

This white paper will show how various profiles work together to provide a standards based, interoperable approach to community and cross-community health information sharing. Here is the HIE-Whitepaper Those looking to deploy a Health Information Exchange will find guidance on recognized principles and mechanisms.

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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 13, 2016

There is renewed discussion, much like back in January, around the need to go beyond testing just the FHIR Resource 'interoperability'. This reference system needs to pick a minimum-useful set of FHIR resource centric workflows. This is more than just a selection of FHIR Resources. Each actor must do something useful.

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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 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. Table 10.2.3-1

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 17, 2023

In a panel discussion, experts from KeyCare, NTT, Rackspace, and Dell covered what hospitals need to do to protect data and clinical systems safe from cyberattacks no matter where they’re hosted , along with how to recover to minimize downtime and staff disruption. Read more… How to Make Healthcare Kiosks More Accessible for All.

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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

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

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 Exchange Standards

MAY 21, 2016

Some of my Privacy blog articles Healthcare Blockchain - Big-Data Pseudonyms on FHIR Start at Consent as a FHIR Resource FHIR Consent as a Resource or Profile Consent given to authorized representative Patient ID is critical to Enabling Privacy Consent to grant read access to a specific types of FHIR Resource electronic Privacy Consent -- Patient choice (..)

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 21, 2018

This is described in the Enabling Document Sharing through IHE Profiles white paper (HIE using IHE). A Community deploying an HIE this way needs to define some metadata constraints and practices, so that the documents are found when they are needed. Each document shared is described by metadata.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JANUARY 11, 2022

Mobile Health Document Sharing The Mobile Health Document Sharing (MHDS) shows how to build a Document Sharing Exchange using IHE-profiled FHIR® standard, rather than the legacy IHE profiles that are dominated by XDS and HL7® v2. as the current HIE-Whitepaper contains MHD and MHDS now. Removed section 50.7

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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 IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

We talk a lot about sharing data and how it will improve patient outcomes and interoperability, but do we talk enough about how to do it safely? TEFCA proposes that the adoption of FHIR access with OAuth2.0 So not only is it highly sensitive, it is also highly sought-after.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

There is some strong discussion going on at HL7 around privacy concerns, especially now that HL7 FHIR has enabled easy application writing. There is concern that applications are being written by people that might not be as mature in the knowledge of how important Privacy is in healthcare.

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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. HOW TO APPLY: Please email a copy of your cover letter and resume to HR@transformsso.ca. If this looks like a position that would interest you, check out the full details for the job and how to apply.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

See my other articles on Privacy Modes of patient centric communication Basics of Healthcare Data access rights in USA Privacy and Security Considerations for the use of Open APIs for Patient Directed Exchange GDPR on FHIR IHE Perspective on EU GDPR Privacy is not dead, but does need reinforcement Patient Centered HIE Apple should have a HEART HIE (..)

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

OCTOBER 5, 2023

link] I'm trying to think through how to go about it and it seems challenging. But, what if a fhir-based app they use has server/architecture outside of ca? Very likely that this bill could be used to get a bunch of people together to define policy and profile how to make it work. Which ones? and I am on that project.

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