Health Intersections

JUNE 4, 2020

The FHIR community is not immune to all this; the pandemic means that we’ve had to suspend our regular meeting cycles, and it seems like it will be at least the rest of the year, or even longer, before we can plan to meet face to face again (and even longer for international travel). John Loonsk will present about eCR Now.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Implementing FHIR standards and API-based integrations is critical for seamless data sharing between digital health tools and core EHR systemsensuring patient-centric, connected care. Additionally, AI-powered data management tools are proving invaluable in streamlining operations and improving efficiency without sacrificing security.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Another ASTP/ONC post found only 20% of HIE organizations are using HL7 FHIR APIs to send and receive data. Behavioral health technology vendor Kipu Health released Kipu Intelligence Program , a clinical and administrative workflow tool using AWS generative AI capabilities. In addition, the company announced a rebrand.

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AMD Telemedicine

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This partnership leverages the strengths of both companies, integrating Carefluence’s FHIR-based healthcare data and workflow connectivity technology with AMD Global Telemedicine’s clinical encounter telehealth platform. “We are excited to join forces with Carefluence,” said Tim Steffl, President of AMD Global Telemedicine.

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Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2019

I anticipated we’d see a lot of tools and techs to support patients seeking support for accessing and paying for more affordable care. The cloud and FHIR standards are fostering a new era of interoperability in health care.

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HAY on FHIR

MAY 8, 2019

At the recent Working Group Meeting in Montreal, I participated in the ‘v2 to FHIR’ stream – focused on how can the HL7 community give advice to implementers about converting v2 messages into FHIR bundles. The tool does assume that there are line-feeds at the end of each line.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We continue to see AI as a tool for clinicians and health systems, not a replacement for them. Similarly, these tools enable better predictive analytics for patient outcomes and risk stratification, facilitating more personalized healthcare delivery while enhancing decision support systems for clinicians.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The leading-edge tool was developed by Life […]. The article KeyHIE, Life Image Implement FHIR-Based Imaging App To Share Diagnostic Content In Provider Portal appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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HAY on FHIR

JANUARY 6, 2019

As FHIR continues to mature, one of the things we’re seeing is a move away from ‘simple’ data representation Implementation Guides to more complex ones that describe a workflow of some sort. To test this out, I chose a simple use case that uses FHIR notifications to let relatives know when a person is admitted to hospital.

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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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Redox

DECEMBER 18, 2023

2023 HL7 ® FHIR ® DevDays in Amsterdam stood out in a few ways, and in case you weren’t able to make it to the event, here’s your chance to digest the newly uploaded session recordings. These sessions highlighted two crucial truths about FHIR capabilities and adoption. In the meantime, check out our latest FHIR content below.

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HAY on FHIR

JANUARY 23, 2020

The 23 rd FHIR connectathon in Sydney is almost upon us, and despite the trials and tribulations that the weather has thrown at us, it’s going to be a great event with over 150 people currently scheduled to attend. For myself, I’m going to participate in the FHIR shorthand track. In keeping with the FHIR ethos, the Mitre corp.

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HAY on FHIR

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

I was trying to remember how to represent family relationships in FHIR – to record that one person is related to another, maybe a mother / daughter relationship, assuming that each person is already represented by a Patient resource. The following are the overall steps I followed. Install sushi. See the online instructions.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JULY 31, 2024

The IPS is a Document, and there is a definition for this document using CDA and using FHIR. The FHIR Document is the one most are interested in. But FHIR is the hot new standard, so everyone wants to use it. CDA and FHIR Documents don't come with a form of integrity check. So, changing them along the way is easy.

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HAY on FHIR

MAY 31, 2019

So a little while back I wrote about an app I developed during the WGM Connectathon to send an HL7 v2 message to a converter app, and display the response (a FHIR Bundle ) in a number of visualizations after validating it using the community supplied validation tool (actually, exposed by the reference servers via the $validate operation).

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Health Intersections

AUGUST 30, 2019

This track shows that patients are the ultimate beneficiaries of FHIR. This could be free tooling or cloud services, developer or consultancy resources, space in the app store, promotion etc. Get connected to the FHIR ecosystem and learn about the specification that’s transforming the industry. Why apply ?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2021

As CIOs, they must also use the available tools and work strategically towards an enterprise transformation. Adopting FHIR standards for integrating data with a physician's daily workflow. Remote patient monitoring uses three primary FHIR resources: Patient.

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Redox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

While you might not be ready to get started with complex AI and ML use cases now, many organizations are using FHIR stores to address pressing compliance and quality use cases. As a newer standard, FHIR does present some challenges – we’ll prep you on what roadblocks you might face along the way, as well as how to overcome them.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Partnerships Smartphone-based health assessment tool Helfie can now be licensed directly through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Products Inovalon announced several new and updated products , including Eligibility Verification Pro for patient insurance verification and Converged Outreach Connectors for sharing member data using FHIR APIs.

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Health Intersections

APRIL 13, 2018

The FHIR R4 ballot is out (see announcement), and I’d like to draw attention to one part of FHIR that we’ve been working hard on during the preparation of R4: Patterns. In FHIR, we made a specific decision to be as specific as we can get away with. FHIR Patterns. Specific vs General.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 3, 2023

My goal is to inspire cybersecurity consulting organizations to help out the FHIR community secure their implementations. The cybersecurity community is a specialty knowledge base and has specialty tools to aid with the securing of APIs, and the proofing that the API implementation is secure.

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HAY on FHIR

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

So I’ve written an earlier post describing how you can use the excellent HAPI FHIR engine to host your own FHIR server. This used the CLI (Command Line Interface) tool , and has worked well for me in the past – for example most of the clinFHIR modules have used this as the back end storage.

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Redox

AUGUST 28, 2023

Create a competitive advantage in the future of healthcare What is a FHIR data store? A FHIR data store is a clinical data repository (CDR) that aggregates and stores healthcare data (demographics, results, images, admissions, transfers, diagnosis, etc.) FHIR is easily shared across systems. FHIR is human-readable.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Grahame, being the fantastic Product Manager for FHIR that he is, is asking the FHIR community for input on how FHIR Connectathon should evolve. I have also written about how nice it is to see FHIR Connectathon changing. I think IHE and FHIR need to be as distinct as possible, But clearly there will be overlap.

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HAY on FHIR

MAY 25, 2021

We spent a bit of time in the last post describing why we want to have data coded, how FHIR supports coded data – especially the external terminologies where the concepts are defined – and described some of the RESTful API calls that we could make to retrieve specific Observations and DiagnosticReports from the repository.

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Health Intersections

APRIL 24, 2018

It’s less than 2 months to FHIR DevDays USA. FHIR DevDays USA 2018, Boston, MA, 19-21 June. When we – that is, the FHIR Community and the people from Firely – used to be Furore – started FHIR DevDays in Amsterdam back in 2014 it was the prime educational event for FHIR in the world.

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Redox

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Taking a data-centric, HL7® FHIR® (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) forward approach is one of the most cost-effective ways to tackle current and future AI-driven use cases. AI tools and products are really only as good as the data that they’re acting on.” Tristan dives into the “why” to get the conversation started. “AI

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Redox

JUNE 15, 2023

Last week a handful of Redoxers headed over the big pond to take in 2023 HL7 FHIR DevDays. We loved connecting and reconnecting with the world’s foremost FHIR enthusiasts in Amsterdam. For example, there is healthy demand to implement FHIR-based queries (e.g., FHIR’s promise as a programable standard is being delivered.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2024

Updates that require support for FHIR-based APIs should allow TEFCA participants to more easily exchange information directly, and enable individuals to more easily access their own information. In other news, Quantum Health launched Premier Oncology , a cancer care navigation tool. News ONC released Common Agreement 2.0.

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HAY on FHIR

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Last week we held our first New Zealand ‘ Clinicians on FHIR ‘ seminar at the HINZ conference in Rotorua. This uses FHIR Logical Models – so an understanding of FHIR datatypes is desirable (though not mandatory). Finally the actual FHIR Conformance artifacts can be generated.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

Microsoft took a step to address health data interoperability with Azure API for FHIR in 2019. It provides integrated capabilities designed to make it easier for organizations to create personalized patient experiences, give health teams connected collaboration tools and adopt data standards important to healthcare.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JANUARY 16, 2017

IHE is still relevant in a FHIR world. But FHIR has changed the world, and IHE needs to adjust to this new world. Profiling is still needed The concept of profiling FHIR is still needed. The difference today is that FHIR is ready and instrumented to be Profiled. Given that FHIR needs to be Profiled is a fact.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 3, 2021

Does that mean we don't move to nationwide http RESTful FHIR? I expect, as I have said before, that the green-fields will/should use http RESTful FHIR. My main concern is that we are trying to apply http RESTful FHIR to the hardest problem (Treatment, Payment, and Operations) when we already have a solution there.

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HAY on FHIR

JANUARY 25, 2024

At the FHIR Connectathon last week I participated in the Questionnaire track and spent most of my time there using – and integration with – the fhirpath lab questionnaire tester tool maintained by Brian Postlethwaite – one of the foundation members of the FHIR community. Powerful stuff.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The platform will include managed services designed to support healthcare organizations, such as self-service portals and applications, data analytics and care collaboration tools, clinician collaboration software, and other capabilities.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 8, 2019

The article Patients Can Expand Access To Clinical Trials, If They Have The Right Tools appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. But tapping that potential, according to the agency, requires interoperability — the ability of two or more products, technologies or systems to […].

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

1upHealth’s FHIR®-native platform designed for interoperability and modern computing is used by over 75 enterprise organizations including leading national and regional health plans, the highest performing CMS ACOs, international clinical research organizations, and over 20 state Medicaid agencies.

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