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CommonWell Marks its 10th Anniversary as TEFCA Gets Underway

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Paul L Wilder, Executive Director, CommonWell Health Alliance. We’re building the next generation of FHIR into our services—and looking ahead to create new use cases for care settings that are still untapped. billion documents to date.

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Bonus Features – November 26, 2023 – 85% of healthcare orgs boosting IT spending in 2024, 70% of orgs actively considering generative AI, plus 18 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. eHealth Exchange announced incentives to accelerate HL7 FHIR adoption , waiving annual fees for the first entities to exchange information via Da Vinci Project guidelines.

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Bonus Features – August 20, 2023 – Healthcare orgs only use 57% of their data to drive decision-making, digital health is well represented on the Inc. 5000 list, and more

Healthcare IT Today

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Partnerships eHealth Exchange added C3HIE , a Texas-based HIE, to its network of partners under its anticipated QHIN.

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Improving Document Exchange Response with Asynchronous FHIR API

Healthcare Exchange Standards

In the last article I show how PDQm can be made Asynchronous by using the FHIR Subscription. A more detailed view in previous articles. See this article. For example the eHealth Exchange and CareQuality don't have any use of asynchronous while they have required everyone to support it.

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PDQm using FHIR Subscription as Async API to XCPD/XCA

Healthcare Exchange Standards

In the last article I covered the basic flow of using PDQm and MHD as an API to an XCPD/XCA environment. FHIR has a solution ready to be used. I worked with a developer who implemented this as an internal API to their implementation that interfaces with the eHealth Exchange (Sequoia Network). Subscription.

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Weekly Roundup – March 4, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Andy Oram discussed how adopting FHIR should be a no-brainer for better public health data collection and sharing – and how that must be followed up with standards for what data should be collected and shared.

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Weekly Roundup – June 17, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. The main takeaway: Exchanging healthcare data is going to include multiple layers of policy and technology , not just TEFCA but also FHIR, HIEs, Direct Messages, APIs, and much more.