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FHIR patient extensible data portability

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Discussions at FHIR DevDays raised this question of a basic way to leverage FHIR API capability to enable the Patient beyond the limited Apps their provider has approved. If a healthcare provider offers a FHIR API (e.g. argonaut) -- meeting the Meaningful Use "API" requirement. Proposed quick-and-dirty solution?

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FHIR as the Catalyst for Data Access with 1upHealth CEO, Ricky Sahu

Healthcare IT Today

For those not familiar with 1upHealth, the provide a FHIR platform for payers, providers, and developers. At the HLTH conference last month, I had a chance to talk with Ricky Sahu, CEO at 1upHealth.

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What is MHD beyond XDS-on-FHIR?

Healthcare Exchange Standards

This happened to be the same timeframe that Grahame was fanning the FHIR flames. So we joined forces and brought the concepts needed for XDS into FHIR®. So now, I take those FHIR based Resources and re-write the profile. Retrieve Document – This transaction is used to get documents. The basics are shown here.

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TEFCA Real Talk

Healthcare IT Today

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. Maybe we should call it meaningful data sharing? (Is

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A Few #HealthPolicyValentines

Healthcare IT Today

HealthPolicyValentines [link] — Jared Jeffery (@Jk_Jeffery) February 12, 2024 One more…I promise: Roses are red, data is blue, Computers are fun, But Meaningful Use sucks without you. #HealthPolicyValentines — Heather K (@korb_heather) February 12, 2024 Resurrecting this zinger from a couple years back.

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Apple Health app will link to your medical records (thanks to FHIR)

Medicine and Technology

Tethered PHRs became available when patient portals were launched by hospitals, health systems, and clinics to meet the CMS Meaningful Use requirements. FHIR is finally allowing true interoperability to become a reality. We can also expect to see some very interesting days ahead as Amazon dives into health care.

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Judy Faulkner talks lessons learned from Epic's COVID-19 response

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Care Everywhere will pull in data about the patient from Epic and from any other healthcare system that uses the standards and has signed up with Carequality , and if they have done that, then that data can be pulled in too. On the value of FHIR for data exchange: I think the key to many things is standardization. They were afraid to.