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Just Get Connected Already

Healthcare IT Today

The alliance was a bold gesture made ten years ago by leading EHR vendors to demonstrate their commitment to data sharing. Buckle also shares her experience at the Interop Showcase and details of the recent CommonWell FHIR Connectathon where CommonWell members leveraged FHIR to improve interoperability.

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HIE Future is Bright - stepping into 2018

Healthcare Exchange Standards

It happens that the framework for explaining why the future is bright for HIE comes from the Wisconsin HIE (WISHIN) fall summit. They used the following diagram to show what they viewed as the HIE future. Up to now we have focused on getting EHR to publish or simply make available the data they have.

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TEFCA Real Talk

Healthcare IT Today

HIMSS23 #HITsm #healthit @CommonWell pic.twitter.com/yLIq8NBs9m — Healthcare IT Today (@hcittoday) April 18, 2023 FHIR APIs are wonderful, but they’re not sufficient on their own. It will include TEFCA, FHIR, HIEs, Direct Messages, APIs and much more. ✅FHIR APIs alone are not a silver bullet.

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Kno2’s Unique Perspective on Why TEFCA is Different as They Pursue QHIN Designation

Healthcare IT Today

She goes on to explain that Kno2 has provided leadership, volunteering resources, including early, lasting and active participation in the Common Agreement Workgroup , which helped to shape the vision and proposed execution for TEFCA. Their early involvement as one of the initial implementers of Carequality serves as a precursor to TEFCA.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Defining and Sharing

Healthcare IT Today

The modern health information API, FHIR, includes the Gender Harmony taxonomy developed by HL7. Rahul Sharma, CEO of HSBlox, says that EHRs have few fields dedicated to SDoH, and that these are usually peripheral issues such as tobacco use. Instead, SDoH data such as food and transportation needs are normally found in free-text notes.