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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

Buckle also shares her experience at the Interop Showcase and details of the recent CommonWell FHIR Connectathon where CommonWell members leveraged FHIR to improve interoperability. FHIR, the API for automated data sharing, is mature and being adopted. This more recent standard makes trust automatable as well.

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Future of HIE is bright

Healthcare Exchange Standards

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The Wisconsin HIE (WISHIN) held a summit last week. The following diagram clearly shows Wisconsin leadership This is such an exciting perspective of what the Wisconsin HIE delivers today, and where they are targeting for future support. It seems to me that the statistics show a really strong and healthy HIE.

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HIE Future is Bright - stepping into 2018

Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 30, 2017

It happens that the framework for explaining why the future is bright for HIE comes from the Wisconsin HIE (WISHIN) fall summit. They used the following diagram to show what they viewed as the HIE future. The good news is that FHIR is a fantastic API for consuming data. Note slide decks are now available.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Partnerships Darena Solutions, Leidos, and SLI Compliance unveiled a verification process for AI applications built using SMART on FHIR standards. Laudio and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership will produce biannual reports and insights from the perspective of nursing leadership.

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Patient Centered HIE

Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 6, 2018

Yet, our healthcare leadership keeps looking for a new technical architecture to solve this problem. I want an Access Log, that is a log of every time my data was accessed (Direct or Exchange or FHIR). There no network that I know of that provides a view of how the HIE was used to expose the Patient data. What did they ask for?

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End-to-end FHIR testing

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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TEFCA Real Talk

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. It will include TEFCA, FHIR, HIEs, Direct Messages, APIs and much more. ✅FHIR APIs alone are not a silver bullet.

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Bonus Features – March 5, 2023 – Two-thirds of patients connect with regular docs when they need medical care when traveling, half of clinical workflow automation users plan to expand their use, and more

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2023

Cardiac remote monitoring company Implicity released a SMART on FHIR App that reports directly to Epic. HIE framework Carequality Executive Director Alan Swenson made the Utah Business list of 40 Under 40 award winners. Personalized care company Surgo Health launched as a Public Benefit Corporation.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JANUARY 2, 2020

Segmentation and Security Labeling: 1 , 2 , 3 , and 4 Blockchain: 1 Provenance: 1 , 2 , and 3 HIE on FHIR: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , and 8 IHE: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , and 5 Patient Empowerment: 1 , 2 , and 3 Speaking Engagements: 1 , and 2 IHE and FHIR My engagements with standards have been the most productive part of my work life.

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The Role of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) in Facilitating Seamless Data Sharing Among Healthcare Entities

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2024

Etienne Boshoff, Managing Director at EHR Enhancify Healthcare interoperability is advancing through the adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), standardized APIs like FHIR, and emerging technologies such as blockchain. Policies like the 21st Century Cures Act and ONC/CMS rules enhance data access and prevent information blocking.

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The Balance Between Promoting Data Sharing and Ensuring the Privacy and Security of Sensitive Health Information

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

TEFCA proposes that the adoption of FHIR access with OAuth2.0 Non-HIPAA/third-party entities/apps role must be limited as a medium in only providing access to patients/providers without storing any data while securing it end to end during the access. will help in providing secure access through third-party entities/applications.

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Kno2’s Unique Perspective on Why TEFCA is Different as They Pursue QHIN Designation

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

She goes on to explain that Kno2 has provided leadership, volunteering resources, including early, lasting and active participation in the Common Agreement Workgroup , which helped to shape the vision and proposed execution for TEFCA. Their early involvement as one of the initial implementers of Carequality serves as a precursor to TEFCA.

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Featured Health IT Job: Senior Solutions Architect – HIE

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

Today, we’re featuring the Senior Solutions Architect – HIE position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. This position was posted by TransForm Shared Service Organization and is an international position in Canada – Ontario.

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The Role of Health Information Management in Improving the Accuracy and Accessibility of Patient Information Across Different Healthcare Systems

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The professionals that manage the information data analysts and health informaticists, for example serve as architects of interoperability, using technology standards like FHIR to build bridges between islands of patient data. Regular audits and real-time validation systems maintain the accuracy and integrity of patient records.

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The Challenges and Barriers in Standardized and Secure Data Exchange

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.

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Looking for career opportunity

Healthcare Exchange Standards

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

I seek to be considered for an Interop Architect, Interop Program Manager, Standards Developer, Privacy Architect, or other similar leadership position that allows me to continue to engage with International Standards development while directing one or more teams in the implementation of those standards.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Defining and Sharing

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The modern health information API, FHIR, includes the Gender Harmony taxonomy developed by HL7. Gender and sex identity, long assumed to be a fixed, binary trait, has become bewilderingly complicated over the past decade or two.

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TEFCA Is Live – Clarifying Common Misperceptions

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

If you’re not sure whether you’re participating in TEFCA, contact your health information exchange (HIE), QHIN, or electronic health record (EHR) provider. This includes maintaining your existing HIE, QHIN, Carequality, or other connections, at least for now. The exact process varies from QHIN to QHIN. The Common Agreement (CA) 2.0

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Bonus Features – December 17, 2023 – 97% of hospitals now capable of enabling electronic access to patient records, 70% of hospitals face hidden business continuity challenge, plus 31 more stories

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Bonus Features – March 5, 2023 – Two-thirds of patients connect with regular docs when they need medical care when traveling, half of clinical workflow automation users plan to expand their use, and more

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The Role of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) in Facilitating Seamless Data Sharing Among Healthcare Entities

The Balance Between Promoting Data Sharing and Ensuring the Privacy and Security of Sensitive Health Information

Kno2’s Unique Perspective on Why TEFCA is Different as They Pursue QHIN Designation

Featured Health IT Job: Senior Solutions Architect – HIE

The Role of Health Information Management in Improving the Accuracy and Accessibility of Patient Information Across Different Healthcare Systems

The Challenges and Barriers in Standardized and Secure Data Exchange

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Defining and Sharing

TEFCA Is Live – Clarifying Common Misperceptions

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