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Improving Document Exchange Response with Asynchronous FHIR API

Healthcare Exchange Standards

In the last article I show how PDQm can be made Asynchronous by using the FHIR Subscription. This is just one step in the overall interaction that one does with a Cross-Community Document Exchange (XCA). Thus this Patient Discovery can take minutes before the second step of Query for Documents can happen.

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CommonWell Marks its 10th Anniversary as TEFCA Gets Underway

Healthcare IT Today

Just a few weeks ago, CommonWell was announced as one of six applicants—along with eHealth Exchange, Epic TEFCA Interoperability Systems, Health Gorilla, Kno2 and Konza— accepted to continue in the onboarding process to become a Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN) under TEFCA. billion documents to date.

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Featured Health IT Job: Enterprise Architect

Healthcare IT Today

This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York. About the Role NYeC is seeking an Enterprise Architect with an in-depth understanding of healthcare data exchange standards such as HL7 and FHIR, and the ability to use that understanding to design world class enterprise healthcare systems.

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IHE IT-Infrastructure January Public-Comment

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Document Sharing Metadata Handbook IHE Document Sharing depends on document metadata, folder metadata, and submission set metadata. This Implementation Guide assembles other IHE Implementation guides (Profiles) and defines a Document Registry Actor. So the text should be easier to understand, and easier to reference.

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Bonus Features – August 20, 2023 – Healthcare orgs only use 57% of their data to drive decision-making, digital health is well represented on the Inc. 5000 list, and more

Healthcare IT Today

Partnerships eHealth Exchange added C3HIE , a Texas-based HIE, to its network of partners under its anticipated QHIN. Products Consensus Cloud Solutions launched Clarity Clinical Documentation , which routes unstructured data into patient records. AVIA added RUSH, MUSC Health, and United Regional Health Care System to its network.

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Weekly Roundup – March 4, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

While many tools exist to automate clinical documentation, they require human intervention and that can cause delays. Andy Oram discussed how adopting FHIR should be a no-brainer for better public health data collection and sharing – and how that must be followed up with standards for what data should be collected and shared.

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Weekly Roundup – July 29, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

John Lynn spoke to Mo Weitnauer at MRO about using FHIR-based APIs to automatically fulfill the vast majority of requests in minutes or seconds – not weeks. Access to medical records makes for better decision-making within payer organizations, but requests can create a burden on short-staffed providers.