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Fhun with FHIR – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

This week’s chat will be hosted by Jeremy Coleman (@JeremyColeman) on the topic “Fhun with FHIR.” HL7 created FHIR to be a […]. We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 10/8 at Noon ET (9 AM PT).

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Meanwhile at HLTH2024: Other Interesting and Important Stories

Healthcare IT Today

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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Avaneer Health is Building a Digital Ecosystem to Simplify Data-Sharing, Drive Innovation, and Transform the Patient Experience

Healthcare IT Today

While FHIR has made significant headway in creating common protocols and standards for data exchange, there is opportunity to create greater data fluidity among all healthcare stakeholders. The improvements in prior authorizations alone could save the industry hundreds of millions, improve outcomes, and create a better patient experience.

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At HIMSS22, Microsoft and Salesforce expand their healthcare offerings

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Within that data lies the power to deliver better patient care and outcomes, provide further clinical advances and accelerate research breakthroughs, Microsoft said. Microsoft took a step to address health data interoperability with Azure API for FHIR in 2019.

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Benefits and Challenges of Integrating AI and Machine Learning into EHR Systems

Healthcare IT Today

These technologies can enhance continuity of care, improve error detection, and reduce administrative burdens, allowing healthcare providers to focus more on patients and improve the overall patient experience (and outcomes).

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Consumers’ and Physicians’ Growing Embrace of Digital Health via PwC

Health Populi

Christian Dameff and colleagues from UC-San Diego answer the question by saying, yes, PHRs are indeed more promising in this smartphone era with the advancement and adoption of FHIR standards that help make electronic health records more inter-operable.

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

The basic (well, not-so-basic) operating system starts with the electronic health record (EHR), accessing data for the patient: allergies, conditions, immunizations, labs, meds, procedures, vitals, in real-time and in a continuous longitudinal timeline.