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Hospital innovation, FHIR takes hold, AI chatbots, and more provider news from Q2 2018

Mobi Health News

In the second quarter of 2018, hospitals and other healthcare providers continued to advance technology in a number of ways. Read on for a recap of trends in innovation, telemedicine, patient engagement, telemedicine and more in Q2 2018.

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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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Please secure your #FHIR API and Apps

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Just updated the FHIR core spec Security and Privacy Module with a simple message, yellow highlight for the new text: 6.0.3 Security FHIR is focused on the data access methods and encoding leveraging existing Security solutions. Revised to add these notes -- Not on the FHIR standard, because it is a bit too prescriptive for HL7.

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#FHIR DevDays comes to Boston

Health Intersections

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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FHIR really was positively different

Healthcare Exchange Standards

I had a short but very satisfying interaction with a developer at HIMSS 2018. They had implemented a pilot project using FHIR. Their use-case was to instrument the DoD systems with a FHIR Server API, and similarly instrument a VA Vista system with a FHIR Client. What he actually did was stand up a new instance of Vista.

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Prior Authorization Takes a Leap Forward in CMS Regulation

Healthcare IT Today

The release of FHIR in the mid-2010 decade changed everything. In 2018, CMS chief Seema Verma pushed forward the organization’s goal to advance true interoperability. The workflow is illustrated in a diagram in an article on the FHIR web site. These factors are incentives for adoption.

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