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ECRI, EHR Association put forth safety practices for behavioral health IT

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In a recent white paper, Optimizing Health IT for Safe Integration of Behavioral Health and Primary Care , the two groups outline some recommendations to help support and improve such IT integrations. WHY IT MATTERS. Optimize clinical documentation for behavioral health and primary care integration.

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IHE IT-Infrastructure Spring 2023

Healthcare Exchange Standards

The IHE IT-Infrastructure committee continues to produce new and improved specifications for HIE interoperability. This white paper primarily illustrates how such a network could be represented in a Mobile Care Services directory. Document Sharing Across Network Topologies- Rev.

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IHE releases IUA, HIE-Whitepaper, and html published Technical Framework

Healthcare Exchange Standards

An update to the HIE-Whitepaper , bringing in the newly build FHIR based profiles. Note: This revision of the HIE white paper, published as HTML, has been updated to include advancements in Document Sharing Health Information Exchange support, including the use of FHIR® infrastructure, and support for consuming FHIR® Resources.

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Scaling #FHIR authorization in a multiple organization HIE

Healthcare Exchange Standards

One issue I ran into is the question of how OAuth at healthcare scale works when an HIE is made up of multiple organizations in a federation. This is important as in an HIE the data returned is not exclusive to that user, but will be used by the whole organization. This is an important part of how HIE scale.

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Bonus Features – January 29, 2023 – ONC says more than 70% of hospitals can use external data at the point of care, the 3 largest health info networks have indexed 90% of patients, and more

Healthcare IT Today

About 75% of hospitals are members of regional HIE organizations, and 35% participate in regional and national HIEs. A white paper from Particle Health, developer of an API enabling bidirectional data exchange, noted that the nation’s largest health information networks have indexed about 90% of all patients in the United States.

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IHE Document Sharing (XDS) Metadata management Handbook

Healthcare Exchange Standards

This is described in the Enabling Document Sharing through IHE Profiles white paper (HIE using IHE). A Community deploying an HIE this way needs to define some metadata constraints and practices, so that the documents are found when they are needed. Each document shared is described by metadata.

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Why does IHE-MHDS not have a Document Repository?

Healthcare Exchange Standards

This supports IHE Document Sharing as described in the Health Information Exchange: Enabling Document Sharing Using IHE Profiles White Paper. This is also explained in the HIE Whitepaper in section 3.2 The MHDS profile defines a Document Registry Actor that persists, manages, and provides access using the MHD access methods.

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