Where Are We At With FHIR? with Joe Gagnon and Dr. Don Rucker from 1upHealth

It feels like FHIR has gone through all the hype cycles you can imagine in the decade or so that FHIR’s been around.  I’ve heard FHIR described as the solution to healthcare’s woes and heard others describe its limitations.  We all know the reality is somewhere in between, but where are we at with FHIR today.

After my previous experience talking with 1upHealth about FHIR, I knew that they’d know the intimate details associated with FHIR and could provide a great update.  Plus, Don Rucker’s decision to join 1upHealth had me curious about why he chose that company after his time at ONC.  In the video interview below, I discuss both of these things with Joe Gagnon, CEO at 1upHealth and Don Rucker, MD, Chief Strategy Officer at 1upHealth.

Along with describing his decision to join 1upHealth, Rucker and Gagnon dive into where we’re at on FHIR providing a modern infrastructure and foundation for access to clean, computable, accessible data.  What data is available today using FHIR and what data still isn’t available.  I also ask them about the weaknesses that still exist with FHIR.

Gagnon and Rucker also share how FHIR can play a role at a population health level and not just the individual patient level.  We also dive into where they’re seeing real world success with FHIR in healthcare.  Then, I ask them if there’s another standard coming after FHIR or if FHIR is going to be the healthcare interoperability standard for the next decade.

If you want to learn more about where we’re at with FHIR in healthcare, you’ll enjoy my interview with Joe Gagnon and Don Rucker from 1upHealth.

Learn more about 1upHealth: https://1up.health/

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John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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