Health Intersections

MARCH 28, 2020

In a number of contexts, people are using FHIR in production to make or report on patient appointments. How to represent this in FHIR: Mark an appointment as a virtual appointment. Examples include telephone conference, email exchange, robotic surgery, and televideo conference. All of this is happening very rapidly.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The organizers of the FHIR #DevDays conference next month have announced the four finalists who will come to Amsterdam to present their ideas to a panel of judges. In contrast to this, the HL7 FHIR organization said explicitly this June that #FHIR exists to serve patient needs. This is a cross-post from my personal blog.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The Connected Health Conference is still a Health IT conference, owned by HIMSS, spruced up by pre-conference Voice Health summit , task forces , and even onstage singing by health tech folk that may wish they were in show business. ? Held each year – but has much changed?

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

A survey published in JAMIA found 73% of digital health vendors are using standards-based FHIR APIs when integrating with EHR systems. Experity announced its 2024 Limelight Awards at its annual Urgent Care Connect conference. Sales WellSpan Health chose Biofourmis to support its bundled payment program for post-acute care at home.

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HAY on FHIR

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Last week we held our first New Zealand ‘ Clinicians on FHIR ‘ seminar at the HINZ conference in Rotorua. This uses FHIR Logical Models – so an understanding of FHIR datatypes is desirable (though not mandatory). Finally the actual FHIR Conformance artifacts can be generated.

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 14, 2018

Developer Conference that in September SSA will launch a GitHub site with its use case for disabilities. WASHINGTON, DC — The Agency for Health Research and Quality and the Social Security Administration here on Monday announced plans for kicking off challenges to identify technologies that solve specific problems.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

Plus, Wilder shares what he was hearing about the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) at the HIMSS 2023 annual conference and offers up a few takeaways. FHIR, the API for automated data sharing, is mature and being adopted.

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Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2019

I attended the annual 2019 HIMSS conference in February for nearly a week of meetings, interviews, education sessions, company private salons, and social media check-ins with my fellow and sister HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors. This week, HIMSS published my retrospective thoughts on the Conference.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

This fall Brenda entered her story in a competition for the “DevDays” (Developer Days) for the HL7 FHIR community. But you know e-patients … unstoppable, she recorded her voice onto her slides, which the conference accepted and played for her. More on that below.) Here you go. Dysautonomia is the smoke damage.”

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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. It is something I expected to be more included in the WISHIN Future is bright conference. A Document Sharing environment can share FHIR documents. There is no special magic in the IHE PDQm profile, it is just a FHIR Patient.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

We met up last week at the DIA Europe 2022 meeting (Drug Information Association) in the cool SQUARE Conference Center in Brussels, Belgium (my current home base for work and life). Those were the words of Ardy Arianpour, CEO and Co-Founder of Seqster, when sharing with me how his company was founded.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 24, 2022

One of the big updates from DirectTrust at The Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference, a Collaboration with the DirectTrust Summit, was how DirectTrust was approaching changes and updates to their directory of direct addresses. Great move for HISPS to use FHIR to update the directory versus batch file updates.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 4, 2024

Patient Experience Insights From the Qualtrics X4 Conference. requires support for FHIR API exchange. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 25, 2022

Geri Lynn Baumblatt offers a recap of the American College of Physicians (ACP) conference, where there was a clear focus on shifting the conversation on burnout and moral distress among health professionals. Read more… Where Are We At With FHIR? Read more… Is Healthcare AI Essential or Nice to Have? with CIO Steve Hess.

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Clear Arch Health

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

What’s on the horizon for Clear Arch Health’s growing EHR/EMR systems integration, including implementation of reputable HL7/FHIR standards for exchanging health care information electronically, using common formats and terminology.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2022

At that time, the chats were inspired by advancements in interoperability, including some rather niche healthcare standards discussions, including HL7 v2, HL7 v3, CDA, and eventually FHIR. Fast forward to 2022, interoperability is more top-of-mind than ever. It is ultimately our technological experience of care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

At the recent HIMSS 2023 conference, a panel of QHINs shared their perspectives on what’s happening in a session called “Real Talk: TEFCA, Evolution or Revolution in Health Care Interoperability? .” – Matthew Doyle, Epic on why they decided to join TEFCA. ✅FHIR APIs alone are not a silver bullet.

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Redox

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In 2023 at least 11 states considered healthcare AI legislation, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) AI legislation tracker. To stream clinical data into the cloud, it must first be translated from legacy standards (HL7v2, CD, X12, and DICOM®) to Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®).

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 20, 2024

the journey to TEFCA and QHIN designation, the CommonWell approach to FHIR, and AI’s role in supporting data exchange. John and Colin shared their thoughts on this year’s conference, the first since it was acquired by Informa. Read more… The Latest From the CommonWell Health Alliance.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

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. Read more… Toward Wider Adoption of Digital Insurance Cards. Like most of us, Andy Oram has a health insurance card in his wallet.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Amazon HealthLake, which AWS describes as “HIPAA-eligible,” was launched during Amazon’s annual re:Invent conference. Amazon Web Services is rolling out a new tool designed to make it simpler for healthcare organizations to work with their data.

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Xealth

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This award recognizes partners that demonstrate consistent behavior, focus on the quality of the integrated offers, and deliver tangible impact to clients, and was presented during the Oracle Cerner Health Conference , held October 17-19 in Kansas City. We are thrilled for this approach to be recognized by Oracle Cerner.”.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2023

Cardiac remote monitoring company Implicity released a SMART on FHIR App that reports directly to Epic. Experity announced three Limelight Awards at its recent Urgent Care Connect Conference , recognizing leaders at Fast Pace Health, Owl Now Urgent Care, and Mend Urgent Care. million grant from The Michael J.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2019

Ann and I encountered each other at European health conferences, “the two American healthcare girls” in the European space. That “future” as Ann Mond Johnson notes is do-able “now.” The barriers to adopting virtual, digital, telehealth modes have been regulatory, financial, and cultural — not so much technical.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 13, 2023

As the healthcare industry continues to digitize sensitive healthcare online information, cyber attacks increase and new regulations are established, Daon’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)-compliant solutions will reduce fraud for healthcare workers and staff, digital health app providers, and patients.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

A few of my favorite comments were: “Jim Cramer needs a crash course in FHIR standards” from the wonkier section of peanut gallery. I spent time on the phone before the conference with John Sharp of HIMSS. There will be a slew of data security solutions to evaluate at this conference. The patient-consumer experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

No doubt these are topics that we’ll be discussing at the MRO booth (#213) at the upcoming HFMA conference. Automated chart retrieval is performed at scale, leveraging modern HL7 FHIR APIs. Reasons for the spike include upticks in claims denials, more risk adjustment reviews, and increases in mandatory HEDIS reporting.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

I went to a blockchain conference yesterday. Thus there will be many FHIR Servers that hold your data (might be others than FHIR, but why bother mentioning them). However probably best to presume many FHIR servers. All the experts were clear that this early days. Caution, but excitement.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 13, 2023

The American Telemedicine Association rebranded its annual conference as ATA Nexus ; next year’s event is May 5-7 in Phoenix. Accreditations NCQA expanded its Data Aggregator Validation program to include FHIR output files. New York City-based Best Medical Care PC selected eClinicalWorks Cloud.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2023

At the MGMA conference, Colin caught up with Greenway Health CMO Dr. Michael Blackman to discuss the top challenges facing healthcare, primarily how the rate of change in technology and policy puts a lot of pressure on physicians in their efforts to provide high-quality care. Read more… Policy, Change, and AI – Oh My !

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 23, 2018

This requires a variety of technical strategies and ongoing collaboration for the industry to converge and embrace emerging standards for healthcare data interoperability, such as HL7 FHIR and the Argonaut Project. I got involved with the FHIR community early when I wrote the first open-source FHIR server.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 27, 2022

Writing from The Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference, a Collaboration with the DirectTrust Summit, John shared updates on ongoing work DirectTrust is doing to improve the directory of Direct addresses. In a nutshell, real-time updates enabled by FHIR are the future.

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GlobalMed

JANUARY 5, 2021

On the clinician side, providers are using telehealth to conference with colleagues, work from home as needed, and balance patient volume at facilities in their network. Data-based telehealth dissolves the above limitations to confer the following benefits: A secure healthcare experience.

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E-CareManagement

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

This is the opening presentation of the AIN virtual conference: Health Data Unbound — Innovations in Health Data Sharing. This conference is from November 10-12, 2020 — and if you register you’ll have 60 days of access to all the session recordings.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

While at the HIMSS annual conference this year I spoke with many healthcare technology company leaders. Aprima belongs to CommonWell, has done some FHIR development, and Michael would like to see Congress condition Medicare reimbursement on real interoperability. I am pleased to share some of those conversations here.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

While at the HIMSS annual conference this year I spoke with many healthcare technology company leaders. Aprima belongs to CommonWell, has done some FHIR development, and Michael would like to see Congress condition Medicare reimbursement on real interoperability. I am pleased to share some of those conversations here.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

While at the HIMSS annual conference this year I spoke with many healthcare technology company leaders. Aprima belongs to CommonWell, has done some FHIR development, and Michael would like to see Congress condition Medicare reimbursement on real interoperability. I am pleased to share some of those conversations here.

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