I’ve posted the Roadmap for FHIR R5 over on my FHIR Product Director’s blog MORE

The article HL7 Starts Project Vulcan FHIR Accelerator Program appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Editorial FHIR HL7 HL7 Starts Project Vulcan FHIR Accelerator Program HL7 VulcanThis article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. MORE

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! This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Scott E. Rupp, publisher, Electronic Health Reporter. MORE

A couple of weekends ago, HL7 India held the inaugural FHIR Connectathon for India. India, btw, has a massive base of engineers who understand FHIR, since there’s so much outsourcing to India – India has always loomed large in the geo-resolution of hits on the FHIR test servers. MORE

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. . To help people with spreadsheet mapping exercises, I’ve published the following files: [link] [link] [link]. MORE

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). MORE

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 ). There’s a lot more to say about documents in FHIR – but hopefully this describes the basics. 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

Webinar recording is available that covers the Document Sharing Health Information Exchange (HIE) on FHIR. MORE

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 […]. The article HL7 Launches FHIR Accelerator Program appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Editorial Charles Jaffe Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources FHIR Health Level Seven International HL7 MORE

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 QuestionFor example, ‘ r4.fhir.hl7.org ‘ I see [link] contains a list of numbers for versions, but I was wondering about the specific URI like form. MORE

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). A few weeks ago we had our first fully virtual FHIR Connectathon, which was a rousing success, though we learnt plenty that will mean the next one (in September) will be even better. 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. This is a summary of some of their remarks, and Holt's other observations from the conference 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. The security appliance checks that the requests coming from outside are valid and applies authentication / authorization / access control, and then passes the request on to the actual FHIR Server, still as a FHIR Request. MORE

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. Broadly there are 2 approaches to this conversion: The creation of a FHIR message bundle that mirrors the contents of the v2 message, and is intended to be an equivalent representation, behaving in the same way as v2 messages. 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 GhadawalaThis article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Manan Ghadawala, founder, 21Twelve Interactive. The healthcare system seems to become better every day. 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. The FHIR specification may be the newest standard in healthcare, but it is backed by all those that have developed the previous standards (e.g. My blog articles on the topic of FHIR , Document Sharing , and Privacy 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 have given a tutorial on FHIR Security and Privacy at a couple of HL7 events, and some HL7 distance learning. See Security Topics , Consent/Privacy , and FHIR for index to these articles. Audit FHIR OAuth Provenance 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. If you are in the USA, sign up for the tutorial at FHIR Dev Days. At the FHIR Dev Days I will need to focus only on the IHE Profiles available from IHE that leverage FHIR. Here are the IHE profiles that leverage FHIR today. MORE

So a little while back I wrote about an app I developed during the WGM Connectathon to send an HL7 v2 message to a converter app, and display the response (a FHIR Bundle ) in a number of visualizations after validating it using the community supplied validation tool (actually, exposed by the reference servers via the $validate operation). 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

Answer : There’s several parts to this answer: FHIR Support for Video. Yes, the FHIR specification supports the Media Resource. In a more general sense, DICOM might be a better way to go for video – I’d much rather use FHIR than DICOM, though the DICOM web specs are much easier to use than classic DICOM. FHIR QuestionQuestion : I have a simple question, does R4 have the capability of storing video type data back into the EHR? MORE

Hit rates on the server are still growing relatively linearly: FHIRThis is a map we produce annually or so that shows all a geo-location resolution of all the hits on [link] (thanks James Agnew). MORE

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

FHIR DevDays Amsterdam/Europe edition is coming up soon: November 17-20. Although DevDays is purely online this time, and potentially accessible anywhere in the world, it actually is the European edition in a meaningful way – it’s loaded and rich with European content. MORE

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. There are a couple of ways I could do this – using GraphBuilder would be the simplest as I could just build it directly – but as I’m currently experimenting with FHIR Shorthand , I thought I’d give that a try. MORE

Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data EMR-EHR Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Regulations American Academy of Family Physicians AmeriHealth Caritas Blue Cross Blue Shield Assocation Health Data Interoperability HL7 FHIR Accelerator SDOH SIREN Social Determinants of Health Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network The Gravity Project 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

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. All of this is speculative, it needs work from the FHIR community to confirm – and it needs better codes, and more about patient flow etc. Covid-19 FHIR UncategorizedIt’s a natural question, then, how the COVID-19 epidemic impacts on this. MORE

Microsoft is previewing its new Azure IoT Connector for FHIR, an API feature that enables healthcare organizations to scale secure connectivity for an array of devices streaming protected health information. Azure IoT Connector for FHIR leverages HL7's Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources spec to enable secure and private interoperability among internet of medical things devices and electronic health records. 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. The article Health Level Seven International Publishes FHIR Release 4 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Editorial ast Healthcare Interoperability Resources Health Level Seven International HL7 FHIR Release 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