Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2019

The cloud and FHIR standards are fostering a new era of interoperability in health care. Seeing AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Google Cloud in large booth spaces on the exhibitor floor space was a visual confirmation that health care IT is now more about data than technology.

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Redox

JUNE 15, 2023

Last week a handful of Redoxers headed over the big pond to take in 2023 HL7 FHIR DevDays. We loved connecting and reconnecting with the world’s foremost FHIR enthusiasts in Amsterdam. For example, there is healthy demand to implement FHIR-based queries (e.g., FHIR’s promise as a programable standard is being delivered.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

Microsoft took a step to address health data interoperability with Azure API for FHIR in 2019. Patient Unified Health Scoring is integrated with the Patient Data Platform, which helps customers connect all their end-customer data in a single place while also meeting their HIPAA-compliant responsibilities.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Amazon HealthLake, which AWS describes as “HIPAA-eligible,” was launched during Amazon’s annual re:Invent conference. Amazon Web Services is rolling out a new tool designed to make it simpler for healthcare organizations to work with their data.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Diana Sonbay-Benli, VP & Chief Product Officer, Cognizant TriZetto Healthcare Products at Cognizant Since the advent of HIPAA, almost a career’s duration ago, we’ve focused on the safeguarding of data. HIPAA/HITECH rules have been utilized in sharing data between various entities.

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Health Information HIPAA Interoperability eHealth 124

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Consider Data Storage When Selecting a QHIN Privacy laws, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), dictate when patient records can be retrieved, but the data can then be used for different purposes, as long as the law is followed. We’ve gained experience doing so through a collaboration with the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In Europe, this is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), in America, it’s HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). Healthtech providers can adopt HL7 (Health Level Seven) or FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources). AWS solutions require software compatible with HIPAA standards.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Read more… Making Healthcare App Development and FHIR Data Access Easy. Digital health developers shouldn’t have to learn the hundreds of flavors of FHIR implementations and APIs to share data , Patrick Schiess at Darena Solutions told John. Read more… Protecting Your Organization From a Hidden HIPAA Threat.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

A few of my favorite comments were: “Jim Cramer needs a crash course in FHIR standards” from the wonkier section of peanut gallery. The fact is that HIPAA may not cover all of these data flows. Cramer’s pronouncement led to a tweetstorm where hundreds of tweeters in and outside of health/care talked back and with Cramer.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Some of these technologies include the ability to meet and adhere to privacy and security requirements, such as HIPAA, through data security and privacy technologies that allow for consistent data protection across QHINs to allow for the exchange of EHI. These API protocols are known and used by hundreds of thousands of developers.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Mateusz Krempa, COO at Piwik Pro Broader reflection and discussion on HIPAA-compliant technologies would help the industry see beyond popular solutions and identify tools that balance successful data processing with regulatory requirements. FHIR, HL7). The following is what they had to share with us. advertising platforms).

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Redox

JANUARY 24, 2024

More time to comply with API requirements The finalized rule requires that both payers and providers update or implement a variety of HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) APIs. In other words, Prior Authorization APIs will be compliant if they use FHIR and X12, or purely FHIR. X12 to FHIR) or small (e.g.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2024

Here’s a quick look at some of the health IT jobs we found: Epic Application Analyst/Coordinator (Remote) – Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic IT Systems Admin – United Surgical Partners International, Inc HIM Director – Conifer Health Solutions Information Technology Support Technician – Insight Global STCI-Health Records (..)

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 4, 2024

Kristin Quinlan at Certified Languages International noted how HIPAA-compliant virtual services can serve many more patients. requires support for FHIR API exchange. Read more… Make In-House Interpreters More Efficient With Virtual Call Centers. Read more… This Week’s Health IT Jobs for May 1, 2024.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

These platforms are HIPAA compliant and offer integration with devices and EMRs. With EMRs offering healthcare-standard APIs (such as FHIR) for integration, patients need to select devices with integration capabilities using healthcare standards.

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Redox

AUGUST 1, 2023

All your healthcare data in one place Redox has built over 5000 healthcare data integrations and is the foremost expert in translating nearly any legacy healthcare data standard to FHIR ® so that it can be normalized and made useful. If you find the 154 services slightly overwhelming, fear not.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2025

They also discuss how FHIR and TEFCA are helping the cause. Read more… A Look at Changes in the New HIPAA Security Rule. Key pieces of the proposed rule include updated cybersecurity risk analysis best practices , along with stronger requirements for HIPAA business associate verification.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

HIPAA), and healthcare data and interoperability standards (Ex., Standards like FHIR are enabling interoperability which delivers healthcare data exchange between different systems. To increase their value to their organizations, IT professionals should build their knowledge and skills to include expertise in EHR systems (ex.,

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

What You Will Do Design, implement, and optimize the schemas and data dictionaries across a broad ecosystem of platforms and vendors Manage the data lifecycle for all source, derived, and exported data ensuring accuracy and consistency Manage the systems that clean, normalize, and translate various data flows in HL7, FHIR, and other common healthcare (..)

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 20, 2024

the journey to TEFCA and QHIN designation, the CommonWell approach to FHIR, and AI’s role in supporting data exchange. Dr. Rishi Sarna at Backline and Jackie Rice at Frederick Health outlined the benefits of HIPAA-compliant communication for transmitting large amounts of data or reaching multiple providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Hearing about these pain points from stakeholders is why I’d “repackage HIPAA” if I were a regulator for a day. In that manner, businesses that remained “outside of the purview of HIPAA” would be impacted. I hear patients discouraged and disgusted when they can’t get access to their own data even in 2023!

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JUNE 11, 2019

The HIPAA Accounting of Disclosures is obsolete and dangerous. I am using the word "applications" mostly generically, but clearly "FHIR Applications" are a proper subset of applications. As FHIR matures, this subset may become the only set of applications. This would be ideal, but is simply not realistic.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

HIPAA vs HIPPA – Fun Friday – I’m glad some humor made the top list since I enjoy humor as much or more than the next person. Where Are We At With FHIR? Big Bet on FHIR Pays Off. It is fascinating to see how we thought about Facebook and healthcare in 2014. Although, this article is from 2012.

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Redox

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The inclusion of social services organizations in the CA DxF is also unique as these entities are not recognized as healthcare providers under HIPAA and data sharing has been limited. Of note, the XCPD, XCA, and XDR profiles do not currently support FHIR natively. The CA DxF includes both clinical and social determinants data.

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GlobalMed

JANUARY 5, 2021

Cybercrime has been on the rise in healthcare and introducing video tools that aren’t secure or even HIPAA compliant has opened a door to attacks. Today’s patients are savvy consumers as well, and looking for providers who can assure them of a HIPAA-compliant virtual experience that protects their sensitive data. Evidence-based care.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

However, there have been some promising indicators that FHIR-enabled care coordination could be changing the game. Once you understand this, you can focus on which regulations have to be considered, such as HIPAA and GDPR.

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie sees development of open APIs, of FHIR, to be positive, but not yet the dominant reality, in terms of widespread adoption and use. Some CHIME members are leveraging FHIR today, but not all are doing it as robustly as possible. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’”

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Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie sees development of open APIs, of FHIR, to be positive, but not yet the dominant reality, in terms of widespread adoption and use. Some CHIME members are leveraging FHIR today, but not all are doing it as robustly as possible. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’”

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Health IT Interoperability FHIR HIPAA 60

Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie sees development of open APIs, of FHIR, to be positive, but not yet the dominant reality, in terms of widespread adoption and use. Some CHIME members are leveraging FHIR today, but not all are doing it as robustly as possible. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’”

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Health IT Interoperability FHIR HIPAA 60

Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie sees development of open APIs, of FHIR, to be positive, but not yet the dominant reality, in terms of widespread adoption and use. Some CHIME members are leveraging FHIR today, but not all are doing it as robustly as possible. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’”

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Health IT Interoperability FHIR HIPAA 60

Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie sees development of open APIs, of FHIR, to be positive, but not yet the dominant reality, in terms of widespread adoption and use. Some CHIME members are leveraging FHIR today, but not all are doing it as robustly as possible. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’”

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Health IT Interoperability FHIR HIPAA 60

Health Blawg

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Leslie sees development of open APIs, of FHIR, to be positive, but not yet the dominant reality, in terms of widespread adoption and use. Some CHIME members are leveraging FHIR today, but not all are doing it as robustly as possible. She notes that “The CIO’s battle cry is ‘Standards!’”

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 3, 2016

One can't simply have a code "HIPAA" which is understood everywhere as meaning the same thing. This article is all about IHE Document Sharing, and not about FHIR. Yet the same lesson needs to be recognized in FHIR. Addressing many different perspectives including BAA, Government reporting, and special sensitive health topics.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Mostly being scared at how good it is, laughing at the mistakes, and having it write FHIR code. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) sets strict guidelines for how and when personal medical information can be shared. I have seen other bloggers asking Open GPT to write in their voice, so I gave it a try.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 23, 2018

This requires a variety of technical strategies and ongoing collaboration for the industry to converge and embrace emerging standards for healthcare data interoperability, such as HL7 FHIR and the Argonaut Project. I got involved with the FHIR community early when I wrote the first open-source FHIR server.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JANUARY 31, 2024

Within FHIR, the FHIR Provenance works fine. Outside of FHIR, the W3C PROV model works fine. For example, I pull in three EHR datasets with de-identification that supports longitudinal consistency, and because the data are de-identified the original HIPAA regulation requirement is eliminated, yet the region covered is expanded.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JUNE 5, 2023

I have been working on a new Implementation Guide from IHE on this topic - Patient Consent on FHIR (PCF). Preferences vs Consent Another read of the HTI-1 is that there around the definitions in HIPAA for Patient Requested Restrictions and a healthcare organizations requirements under medical records retention and safety.

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