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

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 31, 2025

In a recent interview, Ed Yurcisin, Chief Technology Officer of the National Committee for Quality Assurance ( NCQA ), shed light on key advancements that aim to streamline quality measurement, improve interoperability, and accelerate the shift toward value-based care (VBC). FHIR Isnt Complex. No different than JSON.

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

First, consider: the lack of interoperability between health data, resulting in silos, has plagued our ability to “operate” (that “O” in “OS”) in a smooth fashion across the care continuum, from clinical trials and research to patients’ self-care driving optimal outcomes. Now, let’s ponder one particular patient whose name is Eric Topol, MD.

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How FHIR is driving the new interoperability

Mobi Health News

MAY 4, 2018

cofounder Indu Subaiya presented their assessment of the drivers of the new interoperability in healthcare. Matthew Holt is co-chair of Health 2.0. At the Dev4Health conference in Cleveland on Monday andTuesday, he and Health 2.0 This is a summary of some of their remarks, and Holt's other observations from the conference.

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Microsoft launches Azure API for FHIR to promote cloud, interoperability

Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The release builds on an open-source version originally announced in November.

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Sharing medical records won’t work

KevinMD

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

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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Hot Damn, Healthcare Is On FHIR!

Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 29, 2019

The healthcare technology world is ablaze, on FHIR. New proposed standards for interoperability are being established to allow health systems the ability to share information and facilitate patient access to data. Specifically, in large part through a structure known as FHIR. This “FHIR” the market is speaking […].

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HHS' final interoperability rules standardize APIs for patient health data access through apps

Mobi Health News

MARCH 9, 2020

CMS-regulated payers will begin supporting HL7 FHIR APIs next year, allowing third-party developers to include claims data and other patient health information in their apps.

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AMD Global Telemedicine and Carefluence® Announce Strategic Partnership to Enhance Telehealth Interoperability

AMD Telemedicine

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Streamlining Data for Better Care Chelmsford, MA – October 29, 2024 –AMD Global Telemedicine, a pioneer and industry leader in telehealth technology solutions for over 30 years, today announced a strategic partnership with Carefluence , an innovator in interoperability solutions.

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Microsoft unveils Azure IoT Connector for FHIR, to help with RPM security

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 17, 2020

Microsoft is previewing its new Azure IoT Connector for FHIR, an API feature that enables healthcare organizations to scale secure connectivity for an array of devices streaming protected health information. WHY IT MATTERS. "Developers have to build their own secure pipelines from scratch. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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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

MARCH 20, 2025

Harm responded that these health IT professionals should ask more from their single-source vendor such as demanding interoperability that is user-experience grade. This could translate into the health IT customer demanding the use of standards such as FHIR, to enable greater interoperability and appification of the EHR (my word).This

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Data Readiness: The Key to Healthcare’s Digital Future

Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Singh, VP Interoperability Solutions at ELLKAY. With innovations like AI, predictive analytics, and digital health solutions transforming patient care, success hinges on having a strong, interoperable data foundation. The following is a guest article by Gurpreet (G.P.)

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Looking back on a year of interoperability milestones at eHealth Exchange

Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The health information network's executive director, Jay Nakashima, sees big progress with 21st century Cures Act compliance, TEFCA, data quality, FHIR adoption and information exchange among providers, public health agencies and labs.

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

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2025

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. The contest is pretty simple.

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Interoperability and Prior Authorization Are on FHIR

Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 12, 2024

The recently released CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization final rule is a pivotal measure to reshape the industry. By laying the groundwork for expanded access to health information and […] The article Interoperability and Prior Authorization Are on FHIR appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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HL7 Launches FAST FHIR Accelerator To Jumpstart FHIR-Based Interoperability Solutions

Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 10, 2022

Health Level Seven International (HL7) announces the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC’s) FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST) will transition into an HL7 FHIR Accelerator. The FAST project was originally founded to identify […].

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VA still facing interoperability, scaling challenges amidst COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2021

One such issue is interoperability. "We've talked about FHIR and interoperability and APIs," said Gregory Moore, corporate vice president of Microsoft health and life sciences. "FHIR is table stakes," he said. "I really believe we're at an opportunity with cloud-enabled virtual care.

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InterSystems to debut FHIR interoperability sandbox at HIMSS18

Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

This year at HIMSS18, InterSystems will be launching a new fast healthcare interoperability resource (FHIR) sandbox, which acts as a virtual testing environment. The technology is designed to enable developers to connect to multi-source health records when they are testing and developing their apps.

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I Helped Accelerate FHIR, It’s Time to Scale

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2024

The following is a guest article by Shannon West, Chief Product Officer at Datavant Since the dawn of electronic medical records, American healthcare delivery systems have traced a winding path toward the dream of seamless and timely health data interoperability. Rate limiting is not inherent to the FHIR standards.

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Meanwhile at HLTH2024: Other Interesting and Important Stories

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 2024

1upHeatlh Recommends a Pragmatic Approach to Interoperability One of the questions we get asked a lot by new digital health entrepreneurs here at Healthcare IT Today is whether building on top of FHIR will mean a solution will be interoperable. The answer, sadly, is no. Healthcare remains a mishmash of data formats.

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Excited to share Apple Health Records with a doctor? Thank data interoperability standards like SMART and FHIR

FierceHealthIT

JUNE 29, 2021

Thank data interoperability standards like SMART and FHIR. Excited to share Apple Health Records with a doctor? Tue, 06/29/2021 - 17:15.

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MeldRx Is Making Healthcare App Development and FHIR Data Access Easy

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Or maybe they hear about this new more modern FHIR standard that will give them access to that data. Darena Solutions had been working for years providing important interoperability and MIPS solutions to the market when they realized that they could help solve this problem for developers and thus MeldRx was born.

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QHINs, Health Data Exchange, FHIR, AI and More with CommonWell Health Alliance

Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2024

At HIMSS, we sat down to talk with CommonWell Health Alliance to learn about their passion for interoperability and some of the latest happenings with the CommonWell community. Plus, Buckle shares with us a bit about how they’re approaching FHIR and what role that’s going to play for CommonWell going forward.

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Te Toka Tumai Auckland rolling out FHIR-ed-up PAS and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Te Toka Tumai Auckland launching FHIR-driven PAS Te Toka Tumai Auckland, formerly Auckland District Health Board, will be launching a new patient administration system that runs on the new FHIR-based National Health Index API.

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Back to the Basics: Implications of Interoperability – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2022

This month’s chat will be hosted by Erica Olenski Johansen ( @thegr8chalupa ) on the topic “ Back to the Basics: Implications of Interoperability. ”. At that time, the chats were inspired by advancements in interoperability, including some rather niche healthcare standards discussions, including HL7 v2, HL7 v3, CDA, and eventually FHIR.

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OntarioMD is Making Interoperability a Priority for Ontario

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In a recent interview with Healthcare IT Today , Aidan Lee, Director of the Certification Program at OntarioMD , and Matt LaDuke, Director of Products, Integrations, and Service Management, shed light on the evolving landscape of electronic medical records (EMRs) and the state of interoperability in the healthcare sector.

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HIMSS19: ONC, CMS officials outline the framework for interoperability, the use of APIs, FHIR

FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

With the release of several proposed rules on Monday, HHS outlined new provisions around advancing interoperability and giving patients easier access to their health data, signaling that open APIs and FHIR will be core components.

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Understanding Healthcare Interoperability Testing

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2023

“Interoperability is not something you can buy, and not something you can sell,” according to Mario G. AEGIS offers testing for interoperability, helping companies ensure that they have interpreted health data standards such as U.S. Hyland, founder and senior vice president of AEGIS.

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FDA FHIR Pilot Automates Adverse Events Reporting and Validation with Cedars-Sinai and the VA Through eHealth Exchange

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The organizations created a Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources ( FHIR ) -based implementation leveraging the existing eHealth Exchange infrastructure as the central network to send and receive FHIR messages about adverse events.

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HL7 Launches FHIR Accelerator Program

Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 8, 2019

Health Level Seven International (HL7), announces the launch of the HL7 FHIR Accelerator Program. The goal is to strengthen the FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) standard and enhance market adoption through a programmatic approach […].

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EHR Innovations That Should Be Happening But Aren’t

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 13, 2025

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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Fax As An On-Ramp for Interoperability

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

The journey to achieve interoperability in healthcare has been too long and too expensive. To address this, companies have put effort into creating interoperability tools and platforms designed to make it easier to exchange data. To accelerate interoperability efforts, however, creating more technology may not the answer.

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Altera Digital Health Joins The Sequoia Project to Advance Nationwide Data Exchange

Digital Health Global

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Membership will drive continued innovation in interoperability, foster collaboration with industry leaders and ensure understanding of current regulations and standards for clients leveraging the dbMotion Solution , Altera’s data platform that aggregates and harmonizes data from multiple systems to improve patient outcomes.

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3 Ways Process Automation Can Help with FHIR Adoption

Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

FHIR, or Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, are quickly being adopted on a massive scale. While only 24% of healthcare companies currently utilize application programming […] The article 3 Ways Process Automation Can Help with FHIR Adoption appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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More Health Systems Are Catching FHIR

Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources or FHIR was introduced in 2014 as a data standard for electronic health records to adopt, enabling improved access in sharing health data. The article More Health Systems Are Catching FHIR appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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New HL7 FHIR Accelerator Project Aims to Improve Interoperability of Social Determinants of Health Data

Electronic Health Reporter

AUGUST 22, 2019

Health Level Seven International (HL7), the global authority for interoperability in health information technology, and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the only medical society devoted solely to primary care, are pleased to announce that the Gravity Project is now part of the HL7 FHIR Accelerator Program.

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

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2024

In order to truly improve healthcare, we need to have seamless interoperability and data sharing between different healthcare providers. Improving interoperability and seamless data sharing is vital as we work towards a better future and there are plenty of different methods to do this. The following are their answers.

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A New FHIR Analytics Tool from SAS Health

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Thus, SAS Health Solutions offers a common data model, ingesting data from disparate sources of FHIR data into the appropriate fields for analysis. SAS will be adding more and more input formats, but initially is focused on FHIR. Most data about patients exists in EHRs or other repositories in a variety of legacy formats.

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Big Bet on FHIR Paying Off for Smile CDR

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Smile CDR has built a clinical data repository that is completely based on the HL7 FHIR standard. The founders bet their entire company on this standard and that bet is paying off. The company has grown from 5 employees to over 250 in just a few years and recently closed a $20 Million Series A. […].

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Health Level Seven International Publishes FHIR Release 4

Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 3, 2019

Health Level Seven International (HL7), the global authority for interoperability in healthcare information technology with affiliates in 35 countries, announced that it has published release 4 of the HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard.

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FHIR, cloud, pop health and social determinants spark new security challenges

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2019

There is also the continued push toward interoperability and the use of AI and machine learning. FHIR and APIs. David Finn, EVP of Strategic Innovation for CynergisTek, said that while all these things carry huge potential to positively impact healthcare delivery, they also create new dimensions of risk when it comes to cybersecurity.

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Full Cycle, Purchased Healthcare Interoperability. – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This week’s chat will be hosted by Shane McNamee MD (@shanemcnamee_md) from @bpmplushealth and Dalton Ruer (@QlikDork) on the topic “Full Cycle, Purchased Healthcare Interoperability.” ” “If you don’t manufacture a quality product all you’ve […].

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Where Are We At With FHIR? with Joe Gagnon and Dr. Don Rucker from 1upHealth

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2022

It feels like FHIR has gone through all the hype cycles you can imagine in the decade or so that FHIR’s been around. I’ve heard FHIR described as the solution to healthcare’s woes and heard others describe its limitations.

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Chopra says healthcare APIs are gaining traction, calls for voluntary code of conduct

Mobi Health News

MAY 4, 2018

Through SMART, FHIR, and the Argonaut Project, standardized APIs for EHR data interoperability are finally starting to show serious signs of traction. That means the health industry will start to see more complete records, better care, and more robust data sets that can power machine learning algorithm.

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#FHIR DevDays & LMICS Discounts

Health Intersections

OCTOBER 29, 2020

FHIR DevDays Amsterdam/Europe edition is coming up soon: November 17-20. For that reason, Firely have partnered with HL7 India, my good friends at Standards and Interoperability lab in the Philipines and myself to offer significant discounts for LMICs countries. A ticket for people from Africa is € 50 all-in.

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

What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Trending Sources

How FHIR is driving the new interoperability

Microsoft launches Azure API for FHIR to promote cloud, interoperability

Sharing medical records won’t work

Hot Damn, Healthcare Is On FHIR!

HHS' final interoperability rules standardize APIs for patient health data access through apps

AMD Global Telemedicine and Carefluence® Announce Strategic Partnership to Enhance Telehealth Interoperability

Microsoft unveils Azure IoT Connector for FHIR, to help with RPM security

One Way to Improve U.S. Healthcare, Lower Costs and Drive Outcomes? “Unvendor,” Asserts Dr. Harm Scherpbier in His New Book

Data Readiness: The Key to Healthcare’s Digital Future

Looking back on a year of interoperability milestones at eHealth Exchange

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

Interoperability and Prior Authorization Are on FHIR

HL7 Launches FAST FHIR Accelerator To Jumpstart FHIR-Based Interoperability Solutions

VA still facing interoperability, scaling challenges amidst COVID-19

InterSystems to debut FHIR interoperability sandbox at HIMSS18

I Helped Accelerate FHIR, It’s Time to Scale

Meanwhile at HLTH2024: Other Interesting and Important Stories

Excited to share Apple Health Records with a doctor? Thank data interoperability standards like SMART and FHIR

MeldRx Is Making Healthcare App Development and FHIR Data Access Easy

QHINs, Health Data Exchange, FHIR, AI and More with CommonWell Health Alliance

Te Toka Tumai Auckland rolling out FHIR-ed-up PAS and more briefs

Back to the Basics: Implications of Interoperability – #HITsm Chat Topic

OntarioMD is Making Interoperability a Priority for Ontario

HIMSS19: ONC, CMS officials outline the framework for interoperability, the use of APIs, FHIR

Understanding Healthcare Interoperability Testing

FDA FHIR Pilot Automates Adverse Events Reporting and Validation with Cedars-Sinai and the VA Through eHealth Exchange

HL7 Launches FHIR Accelerator Program

EHR Innovations That Should Be Happening But Aren’t

Fax As An On-Ramp for Interoperability

Altera Digital Health Joins The Sequoia Project to Advance Nationwide Data Exchange

3 Ways Process Automation Can Help with FHIR Adoption

More Health Systems Are Catching FHIR

New HL7 FHIR Accelerator Project Aims to Improve Interoperability of Social Determinants of Health Data

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

A New FHIR Analytics Tool from SAS Health

Big Bet on FHIR Paying Off for Smile CDR

Health Level Seven International Publishes FHIR Release 4

FHIR, cloud, pop health and social determinants spark new security challenges

Full Cycle, Purchased Healthcare Interoperability. – #HITsm Chat Topic

Where Are We At With FHIR? with Joe Gagnon and Dr. Don Rucker from 1upHealth

Chopra says healthcare APIs are gaining traction, calls for voluntary code of conduct

#FHIR DevDays & LMICS Discounts

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