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TEFCA Real Talk

Healthcare IT Today

“If #TEFCA is going to invite people in and achieve critical mass, of course we are going to do it.” – Matthew Doyle, Epic on why they decided to join TEFCA. HIMSS23 #HITsm #healthit @CommonWell pic.twitter.com/yLIq8NBs9m — Healthcare IT Today (@hcittoday) April 18, 2023 FHIR APIs are wonderful, but they’re not sufficient on their own.

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Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

Healthcare IT Today

Healthtech providers can adopt HL7 (Health Level Seven) or FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources). The main difference lies in FHIR’s use of RESTful web services and open web technologies like XML, JSON, and RDF, while HL7 supports only XML. HL7 has various versions, with CDA being the most widespread.

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From Security to Regulation: Exploring the Hidden Challenges of the Digital Health Revolution

Healthcare IT Today

Of course, safeguarding patient data has always been important, but as malicious threat actors increasingly focus their crosshairs on healthcare organizations, the industry has had to invest heavily in cybersecurity solutions.

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Larry Ellison’s Vision of a National EHR Database as Part of Cerner Acquisition

Healthcare IT Today

I think we all know the answer to that and FHIR and all these other standards won’t get us there either. Of course, he highlighted the privacy area here by saying that the data would be anonymized. Can Oracle really create a full longitudinal record of all patients? This new database would allow them to do this.

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Covid-19 : the defining milestone for technology in healthcare

Lloyd Price

You will see businesses who have demonstrated real agility in leadership, strategy, market engagement and most importantly the tech capability to establish a C19 proposition quickly with the end customer in mind.Goldilocks in size, we need scale-ups not startups. So from what we have seen, what can we expect over the next six months?