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These Three Things Can Bring EHRs to the Next Level

Healthcare IT Today

This familiar scene exemplifies the unnecessary burdens traditional EHRs have placed on providers, patients, and the overall healthcare system. As a former ER physician and current digital health professional, I’ve dealt with these challenges firsthand—and see the enormous potential EHRs hold to change care experiences for the better.

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5 Digital Health Predictions for 2018 by Lloyd Price

Lloyd Price

App Orchard, for its part, lets developers use a FHIR-based API to access an Epic development sandbox. 2018 Digital Health Prediction 2: Voice technology will be the first step to personalising pharma. In Q1 2017 Epic launched a new program App Orchard – serving physician practices and hospitals to help them build customized apps.

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FHIR, cloud, pop health and social determinants spark new security challenges

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FHIR and APIs. New proposed standards for interoperability and new FHIR standards for letting systems share health information, as well as facilitating patient access through open APIs, recently made waves through the healthcare landscape. In fact, 2018 had more phishing attacks than ever before in healthcare.

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

Our desire for data liquidity has eluded us across the health/care ecosystem for too long, notwithstanding American taxpayers’ $35 bn investment in EHRs dating to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that embedded the HITECH Act funding EHR adoption for hospitals and physician practices.

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#FHIR and Cancer Patient Empowerment – Mike’s story

Health Intersections

I’m very honoured to make a guest today from Mike Morris, who I met at the HL7 FHIR Applications Round Table in Washington DC a couple of weeks ago. Mike is a cancer patient who is using FHIR improve his own treatment. My white blood cell count was so low in January 2018, I had to go to the ER, chemo destroyed my blood counts.

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Group Brings SDOH Coding Effort To HL7 FHIR Program

Healthcare IT Today

In fact, survey results published in early 2018 concluded that 80% of the organizations they surveyed had begun to track and use SDOH data. For the last few years, a growing number of healthcare organizations have been integrating information on social determinants of health into their population health management efforts.

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Why is Apple interested in the Argonaut Project? Is an Apple electronic health record coming in 2018?

Lloyd Price

expect to see an Apple electronic health record in 2018 or 2019. FHIR is a standards framework featuring a RESTful API designed to enable the exchange of health care information between applications and systems. What is the Argonaut Project?