Health Intersections

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

On a forum for FHIR Foundation members, I raised the subject of where FHIR is on the Gartner Hype Cycle (see Gartner write up , or Wikipedia ). FHIR Foundation member Wes Rishel ( @wrishel ), who’s a FHIR user, and also was a Gartner Analyst before he retired, graciously made this contribution that I could post here.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 10, 2018

I will be giving a face-to-face tutorial on the topic of "IHE on FHIR" at both HL7 Workgroup meeting in Cologne, May 12-18 FHIR Dev Days in Boston, June 19-21 So, if you are in Europe, sign up for the tutorial at HL7 workgroup meeting. If you are in the USA, sign up for the tutorial at FHIR Dev Days.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 3, 2024

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Partnerships The Sequoia Project and HL7 International are collaborating to accelerate the adoption of FHIR standards.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 16, 2023

The following is a guest article by Don Rucker, MD, Chief Strategy Officer at 1upHealth Patients want the same modern computing experience in healthcare that they enjoy the rest of their lives to extend to our health and medical care. The Sequoia Project, a spinoff of a prior EHR network, was chosen as the governing body for TEFCA.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Most use of FHIR today is as an API to an organizations health information (EHR). However what is being asked latey is how does one scale FHIR to a nation. I spoke of this scale problem in past articles. What is missing is a similar architecture for HL7 FHIR family of technology.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is also active in the industry at a local and national level, including being on the Board of Directors of the New England Health Exchange Network (NEHEN), the Sequoia Project, the CARIN Alliance, and the FHIR Foundation and the Project Manager of the Argonaut Project, an industry collaboration to accelerate the adoption of FHIR.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is also active in the industry at a local and national level, including being on the Board of Directors of the New England Health Exchange Network (NEHEN), the Sequoia Project, the CARIN Alliance, and the FHIR Foundation and the Project Manager of the Argonaut Project, an industry collaboration to accelerate the adoption of FHIR.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

This article looks at what it will take to let us all check in to our doctor’s office as easily as we wave our cell phone before a scanner in a retail store. HL7 , which has been setting standards for health care since 1987, leapt into the modern age of computer standards by adopting the FHIR standard. Version 2.0

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… Making Healthcare App Development and FHIR Data Access Easy. That’s the value of platforms that connect to otherwise disparate EHRs and other FHIR data sources.

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AMD Telemedicine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This article delves into the unique value propositions of AGNES Connect®, tailor-made for healthcare organizations looking to enhance their telehealth services to address more patients and additional specialties with remote clinical examinations.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

I think the most useful value-add that an HIE can add is an API that is based on FHIR. This is true of an XDS based HIE, Regional Exchange (XCA), Vendor based EHR, nationwide Exchange, and Direct HISP. A Document Sharing environment can share FHIR documents. This setting does have an Option "XDS on FHIR".

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 9, 2022

historic article from 2015 Solution Considerations: In general there are a variety of ways to solve. Internal logic of the EHR. If the use-case does not need to extend outside of the EHR, then there is no need for a standardized solution. FHIR OperationOutcome. Some workflow mechanism. OAuth using the BTG PurposeOfUse.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 25, 2022

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Is Larry Ellison’s Vision of a National EHR Database Even Possible? Read more… Where Are We At With FHIR? Welcome to the first edition of the Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup.

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Redox

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

HL7 ® , HL7 ® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources or FHIR ® ). Increasingly, machines are much less discriminating between a finely structured FHIR document and a poorly scanned PDF—and the latter may be richer than the former. And, nowadays, those regulatory requirements are heavy-handed with FHIR interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 9, 2024

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. John chatted with Dr. Don Rucker, now at 1upHealth, about why TEFCA isn’t ideal for real-time data access and how FHIR APIs will help do the job – and allow payers and even employers to access data, too.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Interoperability is essential in healthcare because it allows providers to access and use relevant patient information from different sources, such as electronic health records (EHRs), lab results, psychological testing, and radiology images. CMS Calls for FHIR Adoption to Enhance Interoperability in Healthcare IT.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Cybersecurity tops the list of investment priorities, followed by EHR modernization, virtual / digital care, and AI.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Partnerships EHR workflow automation tool Clinical Data Connector from Odesso Health is now available on the athenahealth and Appian marketplaces.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 2024

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. John sat down with Anthony Murray at MRO to chat about how FHIR APIs help organizations extract exactly the information they need – a process more efficient and less duplicative than sharing entire charts.

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GlobalMed

MARCH 10, 2020

GlobalMed recently announced that it is delivering FHIR-enabled integration to address interoperability limits between virtual care delivery solutions and other systems such as EHRs and practice management software. Has your system changed its compatibility with FHIR versions and upgraded from STU2 to 3? Introducing DIMS.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. of the Common Agreement and committed to having TEFCA support FHIR-based exchange within 2024. Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Also, Oracle Health is collaborating with Valeos , providing access to EHR data and cloud infrastructure to modernize the organ transplant system.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2023

The following is a guest article by Mike Noshay , MSE, Founder and Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer at Verinovum. Be sure to check out last year’s New Healthcare Truths of 2022 ) 1.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Supporting organizations include Epic, the HIMSS EHR Association and HCA Healthcare. Illinois-based Primary Care Joliet implemented eClinicalWorks EHR and healow.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

The following is a guest article by Moliehi “Mo” Weitnauer, Chief Product Officer at MRO Providers are witnessing an explosion in health plan requests for medical records. Requests are then electronically communicated directly to the provider organization’s EHRs and other systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 13, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Partnerships Epic users can now run the EHR on Microsoft Azure Large Instances. Accreditations NCQA expanded its Data Aggregator Validation program to include FHIR output files.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Here’s what he learned about SMART Health, FHIR, registries, EHR integrations, and other technology that could support digital insurance cards in the not-too-distant future.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 8, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The FDA released guidance last year noting that electronic health records (EHRs) have the potential to improve clinical trials, leading to greater safety and efficacy. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Komathi Stem, founder and CEO of monARC Bionetworks.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The following is a guest article by Natalie Tkachenko, Healthcare Software Solutions Consultant at NIX To obtain test results today, there’s no need to visit the hospital. Unlike EMRs, requests for access to EHR records can be made by other medical centers. Simply open a mobile app and download the report to your smartphone.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 27, 2022

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Rusty Yeager on EHR Standardization and Rehabilitation Hospitals. In a nutshell, real-time updates enabled by FHIR are the future. Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Arkansas-based Conway OB-GYN Clinic implemented eClinicalWorks EHR. Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Disease detection company Viz.ai

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 16, 2020

There is a fundamental difference between access requests for Personally Identifiable Health Data when a PHR requests access vs when a Clinical application or other EHR asks for access. It is being considered to be added to SMART-on-FHIR , but is not fundamental there. Let me explain. Too often networks today are single purpose.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Colin talked to Eduard de Vries at Axia Women’s Health about leveraging their EHR to reduce administrative burdens on patients and present up-to-date information to physicians.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

As we kick off a new year, I thought it would be fun to take a quick look back at some of the top resources, articles, videos, and podcasts we shared in 2022. Healthcare IT and EHR Conferences and Events. Most Visited Healthcare IT Today Articles Published in 2022. I find it fascinating to see what resonated with people.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

To increase their value to their organizations, IT professionals should build their knowledge and skills to include expertise in EHR systems (ex., Standards like FHIR are enabling interoperability which delivers healthcare data exchange between different systems. Epic), regulations and compliance requirements (ex.,

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2023

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Partnerships Epic and Microsoft expanded their partnership , with generative AI powered by Azure OpenAI Service now available in the Epic EHR. (We

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2023

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. John Lynn spoke to Mo Weitnauer at MRO about using FHIR-based APIs to automatically fulfill the vast majority of requests in minutes or seconds – not weeks.

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