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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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Weekly Roundup – March 4, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

John interviewed Joseph Zabinski at OM1 about the power of searching data sets for evidence that a rare condition might be emerging so physicians are better prepared to treat it. While many tools exist to automate clinical documentation, they require human intervention and that can cause delays.

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Bonus Features – July 16, 2023 – 95% of patients are concerned about data breaches affecting their medical records, 81% incorrectly assume PHI collected by digital health apps is protected under HIPAA

Healthcare IT Today

The most notable approval is USCDI v3, and others include two implementation guides from CMS for Quality Reporting Document Architecture and three HL7 standards (for C-CDA, FHIR, and QRDA). ONC has approved six standards as part of its annual annual Standards Version Advancement Process.

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California says goodbye to fax machines. Hello to DxF.

Redox

CA DxF expands upon this, requiring participants to fulfill data requests for Treatment, Payment, Health Care Operations, and Public Health activity purposes. And, while not required, participants may also share data for social services and research activity purposes. access to housing and food) is less common.

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HIStalk Interviews Stephen Brown, Director of Preventive Emergency Medicine, UI Health

HIStalk Interviews

Are views changing on our expensive system of providing healthcare services vs. funding social programs and public health projects that might reduce the need for them? We can document these things, but unless we take action on those social determinants, they’re really not going to go anywhere.

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The Most Important Trends For Health in Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Report Aren’t About Health Care

Health Populi

In health care, this is an underlying tectonic trend with implications for research, translation to therapies, individual treatment plans, population and public health. For health care, the application of FHIR standards helps mobilize data for better health, turbocharging this trend.

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How Can Health IT Help Reform the CDC?

Healthcare IT Today

COVID-19 forced a spike in policy-makers’ interest and willingness to invest in public health; a spike that is unfortunately retreating to the old business as usual. I consulted several experts in health IT to ask how such IT could improve data collection and sharing in public health.