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IHE IT-Infrastructure Spring 2023

Healthcare Exchange Standards

The IHE IT-Infrastructure committee continues to produce new and improved specifications for HIE interoperability. The first is the ability to exchange a list of health data locations, which enables Record Locator Services to interoperate with consumers wishing to discover the location of patient records within a health information exchange.

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How Do You See Health Data Utilities Evolving? Where are We Today and Where is it Heading?

Healthcare IT Today

Health data utility is still a fairly new concept in the world of healthcare. But as we talk about it, more and more HIE organizations have started to use it and the concept has been embraced by many. Michael Gagnon, Executive Director at HealtHIE Nevada – I see HIEs really evolving to be health data utilities.

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Patient Centered HIE

Healthcare Exchange Standards

The Patient is NOT the center of existing Health Information Exchange. Yet, the Health Information Exchange exists for the sole purpose of treating that Patient. The Health Information Exchanges today have an existing Architecture. When I 'used' I also mean the broadest definition.

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IT-Infrastructure Fall 2022

Healthcare Exchange Standards

clarify explanation of each structureDefinition profile cleanup examples with explicit slice use to eliminate validation warnings add some oAuth AuditEvent examples fix the Actor definitions switch to new IHE template Trial Implementation - Sharing Valuesets, Codes, and Maps (SVCM) Release 1.5.0 was released. Converted from PDF to a FHIR IG.

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IHE IT-Infrastructure Fall 2023

Healthcare Exchange Standards

The Sharing of IPS (sIPS) IHE Profile provides for methods of exchanging the HL7 International Patient Summary (IPS) , using IHE Document Sharing Health Information Exchange but does not modify the HL7 IPS specification.

FHIR 70
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Availity to Acquire Diameter Health, a Leader in Clinical Data Interoperability

Healthcare IT Today

Availity , one of the nation’s largest real-time health information networks, announced a definitive agreement to acquire Diameter Health , a national leader in clinical data quality and interoperability. a richer, more transparent exchange of information among health plans, providers, and technology partners.

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10 Healthcare Organizations Ask HHS to Postpone Information Blocking Deadline

Healthcare IT Today

If you’re familiar with the 21st Century Cures Act, then you know that October 6th is a major deadline that requires healthcare providers, health IT developers, HIEs, HINs, and others to share all ePHI (electronic protected health information) in the DRS (Designated Record Set). And the next chapter begins!

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