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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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Her interview here in HealthLeaders speaks to her vision, recognizing, “It’s just stunning that there’s such a lag between what is possible in telehealth and what is actually happening.”. I’m so keen on telehealth, I’m personally participating in three sessions at #ATA19. That “future” as Ann Mond Johnson notes is do-able “now.”
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And we did indeed, from the visible presence of Lyft to help solve the social determinant of health factor of transportation, revenue cycle management tools to address patient payment plans, and a proliferation of telehealth vendors extending services to people where they live and work, 24×7.
This was in addition to a massive acceleration of digital transformation, including a thousand-fold surge in telehealth visits from veterans from March through June 2020. "We've talked about FHIR and interoperability and APIs," said Gregory Moore, corporate vice president of Microsoft health and life sciences.
Home care visit verification platform leverages FHIR Health tech startup didgUgo is set to provide IT system interoperability to its partners who use its care visit verification solution. The company partnered with InterSystems to adopt the IRIS for Health platform to offer interoperability based on FHIR standards.
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So far, the new standardized UI has been added to the Greenway clearinghouse, one of their practice management systems, and their telehealth solution. “It’s CCDAs are cumbersome to work with, but I am excited about where the industry is going with the FHIR expansion that is coming.
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A few standards have evolved to help in this integration, primarily FHIR and SMART on FHIR. Now, with FHIR and this marketplace concept it's simply exposing standard APIs that anyone with an engineering background can understand and integrate with and provide value-added services much more quickly with a much lower bar of entry.
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" "My mother, who's almost 80 – when I tell her she can download her FHIR API-enabled lifetime medical record and curate her data and share it, she of course says, 'What?'" "We need to meet our customers at their level of technological understanding and literacy." '" said Halamka.
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” Shifting focus to “I’m a customer, and this is what I need, here are the use cases” (HL7, FHIR, et al), collective ask by customers w/one unified voice, the vendors have started leaning in. Argonaut, HL7, FHIR are toolkit. Reads the pledge. Rasu: not just talking about DOD/VA interop.
The organization went with vendor Rimidi, which combines clinical decision support, remote patient monitoring and patient-reported outcomes in a unified, FHIR-based platform. Denise Gomez, a primary care physician and director of adult medicine at TrueCare.
However, looking forward to 2024 the healthcare technology landscape continues to evolve with new and maturing technologies such as Generative AI, Machine Learning, Telehealth/Telemedicine, and Augmented Reality. Standards like FHIR are enabling interoperability which delivers healthcare data exchange between different systems.
Likewise, the standardization of common social determinants and other patient-reported data (thanks to the Gravity FHIR Accelerator Project and similar efforts) are critical to move this forward.
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