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FHIR patient extensible data portability

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Discussions at FHIR DevDays raised this question of a basic way to leverage FHIR API capability to enable the Patient beyond the limited Apps their provider has approved. If a healthcare provider offers a FHIR API (e.g. argonaut) -- meeting the Meaningful Use "API" requirement. Proposed quick-and-dirty solution?

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What is MHD beyond XDS-on-FHIR?

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Thus it targeted use of HTTP RESTful, using JSON encoding. The Mobile Health Documents (MHD) profile was born to provide a more simple API to an XDS environment. This happened to be the same timeframe that Grahame was fanning the FHIR flames. So we joined forces and brought the concepts needed for XDS into FHIR®.

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Simplifying Security Audit Standards

Healthcare Exchange Standards

This defines the purpose of a security Audit Log, the uses of this audit log information, including how it is used to provide patients with accounting of disclosures. This specification has been leveraged by many regional initiatives including in the USA the Meaningful Use Stage 2. So far there has been little interest.

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HIE Future is Bright - stepping into 2018

Healthcare Exchange Standards

These historic events need to have the full context of them, which is what a Document model provides. The good news is that FHIR has a Document model, and the FHIR Document model has a directly convertible data model A FHIR Document travels an HIE easily CDA will fade, but never disappear.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

Back in 2008 at 3GDoctor we started offering the ability for Patients to use their mobiles to provide their own history to Doctors prior to a documented video consult: [link]. 44 FHIR allows external third-party apps to integrate into the EHR workflow. “Digital Therapeutics and Diagnostics.