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Security Vulnerabilities in FHIR implementations

Health Intersections

There’s a new report out that finds lots of security vulnerabilities in FHIR implementations, both client and server. Unforunately, the media write up isn’t entirely accurate: In fact, every tested FHIR app enabled API access to patient health data belonging to other individuals.

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Security of #FHIR implementations concerns

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Security Report: " The New Healthcare Ecosystem will depend on FHIR APis, but Are They Secure? The point we should take from this research is that EHRs are doing a good job of securing their FHIR implementations FHIR is good and worthy There is room for improvement in some implementations There are included recommended improvements.

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IHE IT-Infrastructure Spring 2023

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Cross-Community Patient Discovery (XCPD) Health Data Locator and Revoke Option - Rev. The Cross-Community Patient Discovery (XCPD) Health Data Locator and Revoke Option Supplement enhances the existing IHE XCPD Integration Profile by adding two new capabilities. Document Sharing Across Network Topologies- Rev.

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IHE produces Profiles using FHIR R4 for core functionality

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Released from IHE is an update of 5 Profiles that represent a basic API to health data. The subset of IHE profiles that leverage HL7®FHIR® Release 4. The remainder of the IHE profiles that leverage HL7® FHIR® are expected to be upgraded to FHIR® Release 4 later in 2019.

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Policy Ingredients for Real-Time Improvements in Health Care, Prior Auth, and Claims

Healthcare IT Today

Many of us look forward to digital interactions in health care that work as simply as a retail sale or airline reservation. Don Rucker, MD, chief strategy officer at 1upHealth , shows us in this video how current regulations and FHIR standards will actually make that happen.

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Multiple formats of the same Document content

Healthcare Exchange Standards

I propose that “The most technically advanced” document format be considered the Prime, with all of the other formats considered Transforms (XFRM) from that prime document. Thus if the Document Source can create a C-CDA 2.1; Yet if a Document Source only can create a C32 and PDF, then the C32 would be the prime.

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CommonWell Marks its 10th Anniversary as TEFCA Gets Underway

Healthcare IT Today

billion documents to date. Today, we facilitate the exchange of 30-40 million documents each week across the nation. We’re building the next generation of FHIR into our services—and looking ahead to create new use cases for care settings that are still untapped.