article thumbnail

Surescripts Makes Interoperability Official

Healthcare IT Today

Surescripts recently announced its intention to become a QHIN , firmly positioning the company a player in the interoperability space. Surescripts is Actually an Interoperability Company According to Surescript’s 2022 National Progress Report , 1.23 We really are an interoperability company,” said McMartin. “We

article thumbnail

Rochester Regional Health is Achieving Interoperability One Practical Byte at a Time

Healthcare IT Today

Rochester Regional Health is using a measured and practical approach to data interoperability. Starting Simple with Interoperability RRH began integrating external lab data into their Epic EMR to elevate interoperability. Our clinicians needed that information so it was our job to get it to them.”

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Mobile Health Document Sharing (MHDS) Profile

Healthcare Exchange Standards

This profile shows how to build a Document Sharing Exchange using IHE profiled FHIR® standard, rather than the legacy IHE profiles that is dominated by XDS and HL7® v2. This profile will assemble profiles and define a Document Registry. The actor that is specific to this profile is a Document Registry. 3 - Section 4.0

article thumbnail

Too Many QHINs Could Hinder Progress Toward Nationwide Health IT Interoperability

Healthcare IT Today

This fall, The Sequoia Project began accepting applications for potential qualified health information networks (QHINs), the entities tasked with operationalizing the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) established by the 21st Century Cures Act. Reducing the Inevitable Impacts of Interpretation and Assumptions.

article thumbnail

IHE whitepaper on Health Information Exchange models

Healthcare Exchange Standards

The Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) standards profiling organization has developed a collection of profiles which can be leveraged for use by healthcare communities for the purposes of document sharing. The clinicians will find that this paper recognizes their interests in being properly recognized as authors of documentation.

article thumbnail

FHIR data in existing Nationwide Health Information Exchange

Healthcare Exchange Standards

In the USA and elsewhere, there are Document Sharing based Health Information Exchanges. This model is used at the state level, and has three flavors at the national level, with interoperability between them. The International Patient Summary (IPS) is a FHIR Document that covers the same need as the C-CDA Medical Summary.

FHIR 105
article thumbnail

Is it Time to Lean into Fax for Provider-Provider Interoperability?

Healthcare IT Today

There is a lot of valuable information lying dormant in paper and electronic documents in healthcare. Fax continues to be a common method for sharing health information between providers. Although EHRs have almost eliminated the use of paper charts, the same cannot be said for faxes.