Society for Participatory Medicine

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The organizers of the FHIR #DevDays conference next month have announced the four finalists who will come to Amsterdam to present their ideas to a panel of judges. In contrast to this, the HL7 FHIR organization said explicitly this June that #FHIR exists to serve patient needs. This is a cross-post from my personal blog.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Read more… Making Healthcare App Development and FHIR Data Access Easy. Digital health developers shouldn’t have to learn the hundreds of flavors of FHIR implementations and APIs to share data , Patrick Schiess at Darena Solutions told John. Cynthia Casatelli at e4.health

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2024

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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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. Organizations that have a trust relationship can exchange data on a bulk basis (e.g.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. Organizations that have a trust relationship can exchange data on a bulk basis (e.g.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

As someone who has covered the health IT industry for 17 years, I’m always fascinated when I see something really grab the attention of the health IT community. There’s no one solution that will solve the health data sharing problem. It will include TEFCA, FHIR, HIEs, Direct Messages, APIs and much more.

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Redox

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Here are some specific reflections: FHIR adoption: We missed the mark on our HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) growth prediction. It certainly is growing, but FHIR has not picked up the steam we had hoped for in 2023. We reflected on that in our recap of 2023 FHIR DevDays. Sadly, he was wrong.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 22, 2020

CMS has released a proposed rule that will require Medicaid managed care plans and other insurers offering products on the ACA Exchanges to support the sharing of patient data amongst themselves.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The purchase of OneRecord positions Milliman IntelliScript to better serve clients who depend on the company’s delivery of digital health and consumer data to mitigate applicant risks, meet customer demand for a faster application process, and extend coverage to more people. More information is at milliman.com. About OneRecord, LLC.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 20, 2021

The National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved, a nonprofit organization geared toward advancing health equity and economic viability, recently launched a new platform aimed at building actionable insights from social determinants of health data.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Read more… Getting the Patient Into the Office at Sun Life Health. Trey Davis at the Phoenix-area FQHC talked to Colin about ensuring patient data goes directly into the EHR to help physicians close gaps in care and, from there, increase the frequency of reminders and the uptake of patient portal adoption.

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Redox

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Healthcare software vendors prioritize projects that use HL7 ® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR ® ) over those built on other standards for many reasons. Because FHIR resources have a defined structure, they can be accessed, manipulated, and exchanged in ways that other standards aren’t today.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2023

AVIA added RUSH, MUSC Health, and United Regional Health Care System to its network. Health Plan Alliance selected 1upHealth as its preferred health data interoperability vendor. Products Consensus Cloud Solutions launched Clarity Clinical Documentation , which routes unstructured data into patient records.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Patients, regulators, and payers are insisting on data exchange in health care. But despite the availability of FHIR and of APIs from many vendors, interoperability is often described as “difficult and “not frictionless” according to Loyd Bittle, CEO and Founder at Innovar Healthcare.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 23, 2018

Interoperability is an overlapping set of technical and policy challenges, from data access to common data models to information exchange to workflow integration – and these challenges often pose a barrier to healthcare innovation. Today, as health IT community leaders get together at the CMS Blue Button 2.0

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 16, 2023

News The Sequoia Project and AHIMA are co-sponsoring the Data Usability Taking Root initiative , which will aim to implement data usability guidance published by a Sequoia Project workgroup with input form more than 260 organizations. Supporting organizations include Epic, the HIMSS EHR Association and HCA Healthcare.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 23, 2018

FHIR is a standards framework featuring a RESTful API designed to enable the exchange of health care information between applications and systems. Argonaut Project participants are working together to modernize nationwide health care interoperability through the increased adoption and development of the HL7 FHIR framework and API.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 14, 2018

App Orchard, for its part, lets developers use a FHIR-based API to access an Epic development sandbox. 2018 Digital Health Prediction 2: Voice technology will be the first step to personalising pharma. Google Voice, Siri, Cortana and Alexa will finally have connectivity to raw and comprehensive up-to-date data. link] [link]

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2023

Given the nation’s lack of lab data standards, there are 40 different ways to code a negative PCR test result. 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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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

Requests are then electronically communicated directly to the provider organization’s EHRs and other systems. Automated chart retrieval is performed at scale, leveraging modern HL7 FHIR APIs.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

During the boom that was meaningful use and adoption of EHR software, consulting companies played an integral role in almost every large healthcare organization when it came to rolling out EHR software. One of the most interesting evolutions in healthcare IT has been the evolution of healthcare IT staffing and consulting companies.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. All of this year’s 2023 health IT predictions: Healthcare Security and Risk. Health Equity and SDoH. This will further endeavor to cement FHIR as the data standard to support future information exchange.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2022

Much has been written about Larry Ellison’s vision of what he called a “National EHR Database.” To be clear, I’m not sure if this was Ellison’s goal with a “National EHR Database” or not. To simplify the question, is Epic going to give Oracle Cerner access to all their health records?

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

No doubt a month still isn’t enough to fully understand this quickly changing area of health IT. This month we’ve had an added focus on Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and all it’s nuances and features.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 20, 2023

Zus Health , (pronounced “Zoose”), a next-generation shared health data platform bringing distributed patient data directly to the point of care, announced today that the company has closed a $40 million financing.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

Healthcare IT and EHR Conferences and Events. DoJ Joins False Claims Whistleblower Suit Against EHR Vendor Modernizing Medicine – Everyone seems to flock to judgments and lawsuits like this one. Final 2022 Health IT Predictions – Looks like people loved the potpurri of predictions too. Where Are We At With FHIR?

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Amazon Web Services is rolling out a new tool designed to make it simpler for healthcare organizations to work with their data. Amazon HealthLake, which AWS describes as “HIPAA-eligible,” was launched during Amazon’s annual re:Invent conference.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2021

After hearing about DirectTrust passing the 2 billion message mark, we thought it would be valuable for readers to learn more about DirectTrust and the healthcare interoperability work their non-profit is doing. Plus, they have their DirectTrust Summit coming up on June 9-10, 2021 which might be of interest to many of our readers as […].

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The modern health information API, FHIR, includes the Gender Harmony taxonomy developed by HL7. Sharing SDoH CRISP Shared Services is a nonprofit health data utility (HDU) that integrates data between health information exchanges (HIEs).

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 6, 2019

In another step in fleshing out its interoperability efforts, CMS has announced plans to launch a pilot program giving clinicians access to claims data. During the pilot, which is called “Data at the Point of Care” or DPC, clinicians will be able to access the claims data from CMS’s Blue Button 2.0 functionality.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Although most of the group’s recommendations concerned funding, culture, relationships with other agencies, and similar organizational topics, a few recommendations focused on data collection and sharing (pages 23-24). I consulted several experts in health IT to ask how such IT could improve data collection and sharing in public health.

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

The health care section of Mary Meeker’s 334-page annual report, Internet Trends 2019 , comprises 24 of those pages (270 through 293). For health care, the application of FHIR standards helps mobilize data for better health, turbocharging this trend.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 24, 2023

Answers included making sense of unstructured data, reducing documentation, and predicting utilization trends – all based on the notion of using AI to aid healthcare workers and not replace them. Read more… Navigating Population Health Data and HEDIS in an Ambulatory Practice.

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