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The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

According to most recent statistics from the Office of the National Coordinator, use of EHRs has increased from 20% in 2004 to 87% in 2015. Increasing healthcare consolidation of hospitals has exacerbated the problem of lack of interoperability. EHRs were designed as documentation centers for billing and regulatory purposes.

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What is MHD beyond XDS-on-FHIR?

Healthcare Exchange Standards

So back in 2011 I wrote the first profile in IHE that was targeting ‘ease of use by lightweight application platforms such as Mobile Health Applications”. Thus it targeted use of HTTP RESTful, using JSON encoding. The Mobile Health Documents (MHD) profile was born to provide a more simple API to an XDS environment.

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