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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
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) has been busy creating Profiles that leverage the new and exciting FHIR specification. These constraints can be coded as a FHIR set of conformance resources. 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
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
53 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
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
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
I just finished a very long week in Cologne at the HL7 workgroup meeting and FHIR Connectathon. I had the idea that I could host a discussion of how to use FHIR in a GDPR compliant organization. So I created a FHIR Connectathon track. This track was hopeful that we could do testing with various parts of the FHIR specification. We ended up talking more about generally how to use the various capabilities that exist in FHIR to meet the various Articles in GDPR. MORE
50 Answer : There’s several parts to this answer: FHIR Support for Video. Yes, the FHIR specification supports the Media Resource. FHIR QuestionQuestion : I have a simple question, does R4 have the capability of storing video type data back into the EHR? MORE
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
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
57 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
75 In a number of contexts, people are using FHIR in production to make or report on patient appointments. How to represent this in FHIR: Mark an appointment as a virtual appointment. Covid-19 FHIR Uncategorized MORE
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
I am a standards geek, and as such I am a strong advocate for standards developed and maintained by experts in their field. HL7 and IHE are where I focus my personal standards development. In the space of things that are special in Health IT. I resist when projects are brought to IHE or HL7 that want a standard developed or a profile developed in a technology space that is foundational to Healthcare, but where the specialization for healthcare is not needed. 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
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!
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.
Health Intersections
MAY 4, 2020
Answer : There’s several parts to this answer: FHIR Support for Video. Yes, the FHIR specification supports the Media Resource. FHIR QuestionQuestion : I have a simple question, does R4 have the capability of storing video type data back into the EHR?
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.
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Health Intersections
JUNE 4, 2020
The FHIR community is not immune to all this; the pandemic means that we’ve had to suspend our regular meeting cycles, and it seems like it will be at least the rest of the year, or even longer, before we can plan to meet face to face again (and even longer for international travel).
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.
Health Intersections
APRIL 6, 2020
Question: Is there a URI form for specifying FHIR versions? For example, an external system that may not only interact with FHIR servers would need to use that URI to determine that: a) the server to invoke is a FHIR one; and, b) the version is r4. FHIR Question
HAY on FHIR
FEBRUARY 9, 2020
I was trying to remember how to represent family relationships in FHIR – to record that one person is related to another, maybe a mother / daughter relationship, assuming that each person is already represented by a Patient resource.
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).
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Health Intersections
MARCH 28, 2020
In a number of contexts, people are using FHIR in production to make or report on patient appointments. How to represent this in FHIR: Mark an appointment as a virtual appointment. Covid-19 FHIR Uncategorized
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.
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.
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 ).
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.
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
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
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
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. .
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.
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 IT Today
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
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.
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.
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.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
The release builds on an open-source version originally announced in November
Health Intersections
JANUARY 20, 2019
I’ve posted the Roadmap for FHIR R5 over on my FHIR Product Director’s blog
Healthcare Exchange Standards
AUGUST 29, 2017
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) has been busy creating Profiles that leverage the new and exciting FHIR specification. These constraints can be coded as a FHIR set of conformance resources.
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
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.
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/’.
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 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.
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).
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
MAY 18, 2018
I just finished a very long week in Cologne at the HL7 workgroup meeting and FHIR Connectathon. I had the idea that I could host a discussion of how to use FHIR in a GDPR compliant organization. So I created a FHIR Connectathon track. This track was hopeful that we could do testing with various parts of the FHIR specification. We ended up talking more about generally how to use the various capabilities that exist in FHIR to meet the various Articles in GDPR.
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.
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
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.
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