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Security of #FHIR implementations concerns

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Security Report: " The New Healthcare Ecosystem will depend on FHIR APis, but Are They Secure? The point we should take from this research is that EHRs are doing a good job of securing their FHIR implementations FHIR is good and worthy There is room for improvement in some implementations There are included recommended improvements.

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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. Given the nation’s lack of lab data standards, there are 40 different ways to code a negative PCR test result. Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Using AI to Detect Rare Conditions.

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So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests

Healthcare IT Today

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. Automated chart retrieval is performed at scale, leveraging modern HL7 FHIR APIs. But the industry isn’t there yet and significant gaps remain.

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Bonus Features – July 16, 2023 – 95% of patients are concerned about data breaches affecting their medical records, 81% incorrectly assume PHI collected by digital health apps is protected under HIPAA

Healthcare IT Today

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. The most notable approval is USCDI v3, and others include two implementation guides from CMS for Quality Reporting Document Architecture and three HL7 standards (for C-CDA, FHIR, and QRDA).

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The Most Important Trends For Health in Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Report Aren’t About Health Care

Health Populi

In health care, this is an underlying tectonic trend with implications for research, translation to therapies, individual treatment plans, population and public health. For health care, the application of FHIR standards helps mobilize data for better health, turbocharging this trend.

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How Can Health IT Help Reform the CDC?

Healthcare IT Today

COVID-19 forced a spike in policy-makers’ interest and willingness to invest in public health; a spike that is unfortunately retreating to the old business as usual. I consulted several experts in health IT to ask how such IT could improve data collection and sharing in public health.

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Weekly Roundup – June 24, 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. Answers included making sense of unstructured data, reducing documentation, and predicting utilization trends – all based on the notion of using AI to aid healthcare workers and not replace them.

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