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The healthcare technology world is ablaze, on FHIR. Specifically, in large part through a structure known as FHIR. This “FHIR” the market is speaking […]. The article Hot Damn, Healthcare Is On FHIR! MORE
Last week we held our first New Zealand ‘ Clinicians on FHIR ‘ seminar at the HINZ conference in Rotorua. This uses FHIR Logical Models – so an understanding of FHIR datatypes is desirable (though not mandatory). MORE
The subset of IHE profiles that leverage HL7®FHIR® Release 4. The remainder of the IHE profiles that leverage HL7® FHIR® are expected to be upgraded to FHIR® Release 4 later in 2019. Mobile Access to Health Documents (MHD) with XDS on FHIR® - Rev. MORE
ePatient Dave has blogged about the Patient Innovator track at FHIR DevDays MORE
On a forum for FHIR Foundation members, I raised the subject of where FHIR is on the Gartner Hype Cycle (see Gartner write up , or Wikipedia ). FHIR Foundation member Wes Rishel ( @wrishel ), who’s a FHIR user, and also was a Gartner Analyst before he retired, graciously made this contribution that I could post here. In the last few years I created and positioned a spot for FHIR. FHIR could be at the top of the slope while V2 messages still flow. MORE
A couple of FHIR community members asked me about what specific FHIR events are happening at HIMSS 2019. Here’s the list of things I know about: Monday: 10:00 – 11:00 Clinical Informatics In the Age of FHIR: How API-Based Technologies are Transforming Healthcare. 1:45 – 2:05 Lightning Session: FHIR: Delivering Real-World Value for Implementers – Hall D, Booth 7145. 5:00 – 5:30 HL7 FHIR Update – HL7 Booth 4849. Community FHIR MORE
56 Health Level Seven International (HL7), announces the launch of the HL7 FHIR Accelerator Program. The goal is to strengthen the FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) standard and enhance market adoption through a programmatic approach […]. MORE
Matthew Holt is co-chair of Health 2.0. At the Dev4Health conference in Cleveland on Monday andTuesday, he and Health 2.0 cofounder Indu Subaiya presented their assessment of the drivers of the new interoperability in healthcare. MORE
The FHIR Standard doesn’t say much about security. There are, however, many different valid approaches to making a server secure, so the FHIR standard delegates making rules about security to other specifications such as the Smart App Launch Specification. MORE
There’s a thread running on chat.fhir.org about the FHIR JSON format. In FHIR, the base types are called ‘primitive types’ – things such as ‘string’, ‘integer’, ‘boolean’ etc. In FHIR, the primitive data types all specialize “Element” which means that they are actually objects with an ‘id’ and extensions. This thread needs some background, so here goes… Background. MORE
This week the ITI and PCC face-to-face meeting approved new/updated FHIR conformance resources (ImplementationGuide, StructureDefintion, CapabilityStatement, ValueSet, CodeSystem, and OperationDefinition) for publication. These have been aligned with FHIR R4. ftp://ftp.ihe.net/TF_Implementation_Material/fhir/ Please report any errors or improvement opportunities. MORE
65 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. MORE
The article Apple’s New Healthcare Records App Beta Version — Following HL7’s FHIR Standards — Launched appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Editorial 21Twelve Interactive Apple EHR Apple Health App FHIR FHIR Standards Manan Ghadawala MORE
I am getting excited to give two IHE on FHIR tutorials at FHIR DevDays in Boston. The FHIR DevDays event is focused on educating IT professionals in the newest standard in healthcare, FHIR – Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources. MORE
It’s a common thing for implementers to want to do with FHIR: connect to a FHIR server, and make a local copy of the information provided by the server, and then check back occasionally with the server for updates – that is, new resources, or changes to existing resources. (In In fact, it might be argued that this is the thing that FHIR is for, based on actual usage). FHIR Implementation Safety MORE
Today on the FHIR Consent call we had a very useful discussion of how one would use FHIR Consent to do the same thing that BPPC does in XDS. Said another way, what is the degenerate form of FHIR Consent that is equal-to the functionality of BPPC, and what is the degenerate form of FHIR Consent that is compatible with BPPC. MORE
Health Level Seven International (HL7), the global authority for interoperability in health information technology, and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the only medical society devoted solely to primary care, are pleased to announce that the Gravity Project is now part of the HL7 FHIR Accelerator Program. The article New HL7 FHIR Accelerator Project Aims to Improve Interoperability of Social Determinants of Health Data appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. MORE
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. What is missing is a similar architecture for HL7 FHIR family of technology. MORE
This year at HIMSS18, InterSystems will be launching a new fast healthcare interoperability resource (FHIR) sandbox, which acts as a virtual testing environment. MORE
I will be giving a face-to-face tutorial on the topic of "IHE on FHIR" at both HL7 Workgroup meeting in Cologne, May 12-18 FHIR Dev Days in Boston, June 19-21 So, if you are in Europe, sign up for the tutorial at HL7 workgroup meeting. Here are the IHE profiles that leverage FHIR today. MORE
However you specify the bundle, it is validated by the Conformance Server (It’s up to you to make sure the FHIR version of the Bundle and the conformance server are the same), and then a number of visualizations are presented which can be selected from the ‘visualizations’ tab. MORE
HL7 owns the “FHIR” ® trademark (along with the FHIR flame icon ). What that means is that anyone can use the term “FHIR” to refer the FHIR specification – that’s called nominative use – it’s naming the thing that FHIR identifies. Note that HL7 asks that people use (R) along with the FHIR mark, at least once). All these refer to the FHIR specification that HL7 publishes. MORE
40 Also, are there any plans to certify HL7 FHIR terminology services? Apelon DTS – open source, and a full blown terminology service that is filling out their FHIR API. Art-Decor – provides FHIR API to the content in art-decor. VSAC – provides some FHIR terminology services for the value sets already in VSAC. Of these, I believe that the most thoroughly tested (at least on the FHIR API side) are Ontoserver and my server. FHIR Question MORE
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While SMART already describes a method for authorizing non-FHIR scopes by prefixing the scope with __ (two underscores) , it doesn’t explicitly describe how to describe access to FHIR operations. FHIR SecurityOne of the subjects we discussed at DevDays in Redmond Seattle (2019) was starting to plan what changes to make for scopes in v2 of the Smart App Launch specification. MORE
How does one put a FHIR Document into XDS? How does one find a FHIR Document in XDS? Both of these might still be needed for FHIR Documents. FHIR is more popularly known for the access model using http REST. FHIR has a Document model. MORE
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources or FHIR was introduced in 2014 as a data standard for electronic health records to adopt, enabling improved access in sharing health data. The article More Health Systems Are Catching FHIR appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Editorial Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources FHIR Patricia Hyle StayWellThis article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. MORE
Health Wizz has updated and is piloting its unusual blockchain- and FHIR-enabled EHR aggregator mobile app, which uses blockchain to tokenize data, enabling patients to securely aggregate, organize, share, donate and/or trade their medical records MORE
I will be giving the FHIR Privacy and Security tutorial again at Sydney HL7 meeting on Thursday afternoon (our normal Wednesday afternoon agenda slot). They can be viewed freely on my blog at : HL7 Tutorial - FHIR Privacy and Security Given that I have more properly registered my tutorial (rather than filling in at last minute); I will be removing some bulk from Part 1, and making Part 3 more prominent. MORE
40 This is an update of what is going on in Security and Privacy in, and around, the FHIR specification. This spans the whole of the FHIR specification such that each Resource is assessed into one of four buckets of Security Considerations: Patient specific, Other Identified Individual specific, Business sensitive, and Anonymous Readable. The main goal of the classification is to raise awareness that the FHIR specification covers use-cases other than just sensitive patient data. MORE
For the last few years, a growing number of healthcare organizations have been integrating information on social determinants of health into their population health management efforts. MORE
My tutorial is "FHIR Security and Privacy (TH15)" Not Hacking Unfortunately I did not provide a description for my tutorial, so what is published in the HL7 tutorial guide is based on a previous tutorial. That tutorial was more focused on hacking a FHIR Server. SMART-on-FHIR During the HL7 Workgroup meeting there will be a good tutorials on how to use SMART-on-FHIR specifically. I am giving a tutorial at the HL7 workgroup meeting in Atlanta. MORE
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Health Level Seven International (HL7), the global authority for interoperability in healthcare information technology with affiliates in 35 countries, announced that it has published release 4 of the HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard. MORE
FHIR Related Topics 
Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 8, 2019
Health Level Seven International (HL7), announces the launch of the HL7 FHIR Accelerator Program. The goal is to strengthen the FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) standard and enhance market adoption through a programmatic approach […].
Electronic Health Reporter
APRIL 2, 2019
The article Apple’s New Healthcare Records App Beta Version — Following HL7’s FHIR Standards — Launched appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Editorial 21Twelve Interactive Apple EHR Apple Health App FHIR FHIR Standards Manan Ghadawala
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Electronic Health Reporter
SEPTEMBER 13, 2019
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources or FHIR was introduced in 2014 as a data standard for electronic health records to adopt, enabling improved access in sharing health data. The article More Health Systems Are Catching FHIR appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Editorial Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources FHIR Patricia Hyle StayWellThis article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited.
Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 29, 2019
The healthcare technology world is ablaze, on FHIR. Specifically, in large part through a structure known as FHIR. This “FHIR” the market is speaking […]. The article Hot Damn, Healthcare Is On FHIR!
HAY on FHIR
MAY 8, 2019
At the recent Working Group Meeting in Montreal, I participated in the ‘v2 to FHIR’ stream – focused on how can the HL7 community give advice to implementers about converting v2 messages into FHIR bundles. So it’s the ‘send to FHIR Server’ type of conversion).
Health Intersections
MAY 12, 2019
The FHIR Standard doesn’t say much about security. There are, however, many different valid approaches to making a server secure, so the FHIR standard delegates making rules about security to other specifications such as the Smart App Launch Specification.
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HAY on FHIR
MAY 31, 2019
However you specify the bundle, it is validated by the Conformance Server (It’s up to you to make sure the FHIR version of the Bundle and the conformance server are the same), and then a number of visualizations are presented which can be selected from the ‘visualizations’ tab.
Healthcare Exchange Standards
AUGUST 22, 2019
Most discussions about FHIR are simple interaction diagrams like this: Many Sources (n != We could imagine that EACH of these Sources will publish a FHIR endpoint and publish US-Core based Common Clinical Data Set (CCDS).
Healthcare Exchange Standards
NOVEMBER 22, 2019
Today on the FHIR Consent call we had a very useful discussion of how one would use FHIR Consent to do the same thing that BPPC does in XDS. Said another way, what is the degenerate form of FHIR Consent that is equal-to the functionality of BPPC, and what is the degenerate form of FHIR Consent that is compatible with BPPC.
Electronic Health Reporter
JANUARY 3, 2019
Health Level Seven International (HL7), the global authority for interoperability in healthcare information technology with affiliates in 35 countries, announced that it has published release 4 of the HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard.
Health Intersections
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
A couple of FHIR community members asked me about what specific FHIR events are happening at HIMSS 2019. Here’s the list of things I know about: Monday: 10:00 – 11:00 Clinical Informatics In the Age of FHIR: How API-Based Technologies are Transforming Healthcare. 1:45 – 2:05 Lightning Session: FHIR: Delivering Real-World Value for Implementers – Hall D, Booth 7145. 5:00 – 5:30 HL7 FHIR Update – HL7 Booth 4849. Community FHIR
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HAY on FHIR
MAY 10, 2019
I had an email from a company which had a number of really good questions about exposing data through FHIR, so I thought I’d write a post about it rather than just replying directly as it may be of interest to others (and also gives others the opportunity to disagree with me ).
Health Intersections
MAY 20, 2019
It’s a common thing for implementers to want to do with FHIR: connect to a FHIR server, and make a local copy of the information provided by the server, and then check back occasionally with the server for updates – that is, new resources, or changes to existing resources. (In In fact, it might be argued that this is the thing that FHIR is for, based on actual usage). FHIR Implementation Safety
Health Intersections
MAY 22, 2019
I also added this to the ci-build at [link] , so it will be present for all future versions of FHIR. Alternatives: the FHIR Mapping Language MDMI (and see MDHT ) Writing your own code… One of the ubiquitous uses of Excel (or spreadsheets more generally) is for mapping purposes. .
Mobi Health News
JULY 19, 2018
Health Wizz has updated and is piloting its unusual blockchain- and FHIR-enabled EHR aggregator mobile app, which uses blockchain to tokenize data, enabling patients to securely aggregate, organize, share, donate and/or trade their medical records
Healthcare Exchange Standards
JUNE 9, 2018
I am getting excited to give two IHE on FHIR tutorials at FHIR DevDays in Boston. The FHIR DevDays event is focused on educating IT professionals in the newest standard in healthcare, FHIR – Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources.
Mobi Health News
MAY 4, 2018
Matthew Holt is co-chair of Health 2.0. At the Dev4Health conference in Cleveland on Monday andTuesday, he and Health 2.0 cofounder Indu Subaiya presented their assessment of the drivers of the new interoperability in healthcare.
Healthcare Exchange Standards
SEPTEMBER 8, 2019
My tutorial is "FHIR Security and Privacy (TH15)" Not Hacking Unfortunately I did not provide a description for my tutorial, so what is published in the HL7 tutorial guide is based on a previous tutorial. That tutorial was more focused on hacking a FHIR Server. SMART-on-FHIR During the HL7 Workgroup meeting there will be a good tutorials on how to use SMART-on-FHIR specifically. I am giving a tutorial at the HL7 workgroup meeting in Atlanta.
Health Intersections
JANUARY 20, 2019
I’ve posted the Roadmap for FHIR R5 over on my FHIR Product Director’s blog
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
The release builds on an open-source version originally announced in November
Health Intersections
JUNE 13, 2019
While SMART already describes a method for authorizing non-FHIR scopes by prefixing the scope with __ (two underscores) , it doesn’t explicitly describe how to describe access to FHIR operations. FHIR SecurityOne of the subjects we discussed at DevDays in Redmond Seattle (2019) was starting to plan what changes to make for scopes in v2 of the Smart App Launch specification.
Electronic Health Reporter
AUGUST 22, 2019
Health Level Seven International (HL7), the global authority for interoperability in health information technology, and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the only medical society devoted solely to primary care, are pleased to announce that the Gravity Project is now part of the HL7 FHIR Accelerator Program. The article New HL7 FHIR Accelerator Project Aims to Improve Interoperability of Social Determinants of Health Data appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
Health Intersections
APRIL 13, 2018
The FHIR R4 ballot is out (see announcement), and I’d like to draw attention to one part of FHIR that we’ve been working hard on during the preparation of R4: Patterns. In FHIR, we made a specific decision to be as specific as we can get away with. FHIR Patterns.
Healthcare Exchange Standards
MARCH 11, 2019
The subset of IHE profiles that leverage HL7®FHIR® Release 4. The remainder of the IHE profiles that leverage HL7® FHIR® are expected to be upgraded to FHIR® Release 4 later in 2019. Mobile Access to Health Documents (MHD) with XDS on FHIR® - Rev.
Health Intersections
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
ePatient Dave has blogged about the Patient Innovator track at FHIR DevDays
Healthcare Exchange Standards
MAY 9, 2019
This is an update of what is going on in Security and Privacy in, and around, the FHIR specification. This spans the whole of the FHIR specification such that each Resource is assessed into one of four buckets of Security Considerations: Patient specific, Other Identified Individual specific, Business sensitive, and Anonymous Readable. The main goal of the classification is to raise awareness that the FHIR specification covers use-cases other than just sensitive patient data.
HAY on FHIR
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
Last week we held our first New Zealand ‘ Clinicians on FHIR ‘ seminar at the HINZ conference in Rotorua. This uses FHIR Logical Models – so an understanding of FHIR datatypes is desirable (though not mandatory).
Health Intersections
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
On a forum for FHIR Foundation members, I raised the subject of where FHIR is on the Gartner Hype Cycle (see Gartner write up , or Wikipedia ). FHIR Foundation member Wes Rishel ( @wrishel ), who’s a FHIR user, and also was a Gartner Analyst before he retired, graciously made this contribution that I could post here. In the last few years I created and positioned a spot for FHIR. FHIR could be at the top of the slope while V2 messages still flow.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
This year at HIMSS18, InterSystems will be launching a new fast healthcare interoperability resource (FHIR) sandbox, which acts as a virtual testing environment.
Health Intersections
APRIL 25, 2018
Also, are there any plans to certify HL7 FHIR terminology services? Apelon DTS – open source, and a full blown terminology service that is filling out their FHIR API. Art-Decor – provides FHIR API to the content in art-decor. VSAC – provides some FHIR terminology services for the value sets already in VSAC. Of these, I believe that the most thoroughly tested (at least on the FHIR API side) are Ontoserver and my server. FHIR Question
Healthcare Exchange Standards
DECEMBER 3, 2019
I will be giving the FHIR Privacy and Security tutorial again at Sydney HL7 meeting on Thursday afternoon (our normal Wednesday afternoon agenda slot). They can be viewed freely on my blog at : HL7 Tutorial - FHIR Privacy and Security Given that I have more properly registered my tutorial (rather than filling in at last minute); I will be removing some bulk from Part 1, and making Part 3 more prominent.
Health Intersections
JUNE 5, 2018
There’s a thread running on chat.fhir.org about the FHIR JSON format. In FHIR, the base types are called ‘primitive types’ – things such as ‘string’, ‘integer’, ‘boolean’ etc. In FHIR, the primitive data types all specialize “Element” which means that they are actually objects with an ‘id’ and extensions. This thread needs some background, so here goes… Background.
Healthcare Exchange Standards
JUNE 25, 2018
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.
Healthcare Exchange Standards
OCTOBER 24, 2019
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. What is missing is a similar architecture for HL7 FHIR family of technology.
Healthcare Exchange Standards
APRIL 10, 2018
I will be giving a face-to-face tutorial on the topic of "IHE on FHIR" at both HL7 Workgroup meeting in Cologne, May 12-18 FHIR Dev Days in Boston, June 19-21 So, if you are in Europe, sign up for the tutorial at HL7 workgroup meeting. Here are the IHE profiles that leverage FHIR today.
HAY on FHIR
JANUARY 6, 2019
As FHIR continues to mature, one of the things we’re seeing is a move away from ‘simple’ data representation Implementation Guides to more complex ones that describe a workflow of some sort. The first is an HTTP node that accepts a GET request to the endpoint ‘/fhir/’.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 21, 2019
The new effort will be focused on standardizing medical codes for social determinants of health.
Health Intersections
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
HL7 owns the “FHIR” ® trademark (along with the FHIR flame icon ). What that means is that anyone can use the term “FHIR” to refer the FHIR specification – that’s called nominative use – it’s naming the thing that FHIR identifies. Note that HL7 asks that people use (R) along with the FHIR mark, at least once). All these refer to the FHIR specification that HL7 publishes.
Healthcare Exchange Standards
JULY 26, 2019
This week the ITI and PCC face-to-face meeting approved new/updated FHIR conformance resources (ImplementationGuide, StructureDefintion, CapabilityStatement, ValueSet, CodeSystem, and OperationDefinition) for publication. These have been aligned with FHIR R4. ftp://ftp.ihe.net/TF_Implementation_Material/fhir/ Please report any errors or improvement opportunities.
Healthcare Exchange Standards
JANUARY 10, 2017
How does one put a FHIR Document into XDS? How does one find a FHIR Document in XDS? Both of these might still be needed for FHIR Documents. FHIR is more popularly known for the access model using http REST. FHIR has a Document model.
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