Definition Health Information Interoperability Survey 
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
The growing use of APIs in health information technology innovation for patient care has been a boon to speeding development placed in the hands of providers and patients. Using APIs can help drive interoperability and make data “liquid” and useable. Sidebar on “what is an ‘API?’
Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
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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The Digital Health Corner
JUNE 14, 2017
There are hospitals within the same healthcare system in many places with disparate EHRs which do not talk to each other or exchange information. Increasing healthcare consolidation of hospitals has exacerbated the problem of lack of interoperability. From a provider standpoint. Clinical trials. Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 20, 2023
The siloed nature of such data repositories can be attributed to various factors, including using different EHR systems, varying data capture standards, and a historical lack of emphasis on system interoperability. The solution to these challenges lies in the adoption of interoperable data systems.
The Digital Health Corner
MARCH 26, 2018
A good definition of blockchain is: “A blockchain , [1] [2] [3] originally block chain , [4] [5] is a continuously growing list of records , called blocks, which are linked and secured using cryptography. [1] One of the most obvious benefits of blockchain resides in improving privacy of electronic health records.
Docnotes
JANUARY 30, 2022
By focusing on medical definitions of success (generally expressed as HEDIS measures), the program medicalized social problems and failed to explicitly recognize the significant role that social determinants play in the health of our communities. Did this happen everywhere? This was a minority of PPS. But it happened.
HIStalk Interviews
MARCH 25, 2019
Grahame Grieve is a principal with Health Intersections of Melbourne, Australia and was the architect-developer of HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR, pronounced “fire”) specification that allows EHRs to exchange information. That definitely happens. That puts them in good stead to get interoperable.
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