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Talking with one expert at the conference, they highlighted how eHealth Exchange was far ahead on their implementation of FHIR versus most of the other networks. Plus, I couldn’t resist the FHIR pun. What do you think of this analogy between pipes, plumbing, and clean water with health data interoperability?
“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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The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) was followed recently by the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing (HTI-1) Final Rule. ” Patients are a major source of pressure for interoperability and data sharing.
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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While the key components of privacy (administrative, uses and disclosures, individual rights, and general security) are all necessary today, I would put privacy, security, breach – and relevant 21 Century Cures Interoperability topics – all together and make sure everyone handling any type of sensitive information be subject to these rules.
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The healthcare industry’s steady progress toward interoperability and health information exchange promises to improve data exchange to address these challenges. Automated chart retrieval is performed at scale, leveraging modern HL7 FHIR APIs. Healthcare stakeholders need the patient data that healthcare providers possess.
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These products, such as Google Cloud’s Healthcare API and Healthcare Data Engine, require data to be based in the FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) standard to enable interoperability at scale. Healthcare API and HDE are primarily based in the FHIR standard, and first require data to be transformed into FHIR.
While there were not overt themes (or if there were, I missed them), a few certainly emerged – the application of AI in healthcare, health equity, the future of healthcare (in a post-COVID world), and our personal favorite, interoperability. Sessions like “ Interoperability. What’s Taking So Long?”
Interoperability as the key to making a perfect vision an effective and trusted reality. While the envisioned future still calls for brick-and-mortar hospitals, much care provision outside of procedure delivery could shift away from this setting and be delivered in the community and enabled through interoperable data, and digital delivery.
As we approach 2023 it is amazing that interoperability, true broad-based connectivity between healthcare systems, looks like the Verizon heatmap back in 2005 when there was as much white on the map as there was red. She says of Kno2, “We enable interoperability and the magic happening on the edge.”
Kristen Valdes, Founder and CEO at b.well I think we’re going to see a rush towards people moving into platforming on FHIR using open standards. We’re seeing that the new prior auth rule that just dropped in January that there’s people already running pilots on DaVinci implementation guides which run on FHIR and CQL.
Healthtech providers can adopt HL7 (Health Level Seven) or FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources). The main difference lies in FHIR’s use of RESTful web services and open web technologies like XML, JSON, and RDF, while HL7 supports only XML. HL7 has various versions, with CDA being the most widespread.
The good news is that FHIR has a Document model, and the FHIR Document model has a directly convertible data model A FHIR Document travels an HIE easily CDA will fade, but never disappear. This first step is critical to Interoperability. This first step is critical to Interoperability.
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Vijay Verma, VP of Product Strategy at TeleVox A common shortcoming in healthcare communication systems is interoperability. Additionally, inter-organizational communication between providers and business associates remains a challenge, with EHR and other IT vendors lacking seamless interoperability between platforms.
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