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Nationwide Health Information Exchange on #FHIR

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Most use of FHIR today is as an API to an organizations health information (EHR). However what is being asked latey is how does one scale FHIR to a nation. I have plenty of articles on how a Nationwide Health Information Exchange (HIE) could be built with the IHE XD* family of profiles.

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So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests

Healthcare IT Today

But the administrative costs for providers to share this information keep escalating. The healthcare industry’s steady progress toward interoperability and health information exchange promises to improve data exchange to address these challenges. Here is one example of how payer exchange is being automated today.

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Record Location on FHIR - aka Patient Identity Correlation

Healthcare Exchange Standards

IHE has created a FHIR based Patient identity management system for health information exchanges. Added to this is a set of requirements and expectations around how Merging (Link and UnLink) are to be implemented. It is possible that a formal Merge will be supported, but in FHIR a Merge comes with some downsides.

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Redox unwraps interoperability in 2024

Redox

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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Weekly Roundup – November 25, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

Like most of us, Andy Oram has a health insurance card in his wallet. Here’s what he learned about SMART Health, FHIR, registries, EHR integrations, and other technology that could support digital insurance cards in the not-too-distant future. Read more… Toward Wider Adoption of Digital Insurance Cards.

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Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions

Healthcare IT Today

This became possible thanks to electronic health records, telemedicine, and cloud solutions. Let’s discuss how to tackle them and explore the IT solutions essential for modern healthcare institutions. Unlike EMRs, requests for access to EHR records can be made by other medical centers.

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Top takeaways from HIMSS22: What CIOs need to know

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Staff members, clinicians, and administrative staff can access patient health information and social circumstances while observing the patient from all angles to arrange appropriate treatment while empowering front-line support teams to communicate with and provide an excellent experience for patients. Virtual care.