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. I have plenty of articles on how a Nationwide Health Information Exchange (HIE) could be built with the IHE XD* family of profiles.

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Digital Health Global

MARCH 21, 2023

FOCUS data products are designed to streamline data by delivering comprehensive, simplified, and organized patient health information across seven disease states: Diabetes, Cardiology, Oncology, Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), Pulmonology, Orthopedics, and Gastroenterology.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 9, 2020

CMS-regulated payers will begin supporting HL7 FHIR APIs next year, allowing third-party developers to include claims data and other patient health information in their apps.

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 25, 2023

1upHealth’s FHIR®-native platform designed for interoperability and modern computing is used by over 75 enterprise organizations including leading national and regional health plans, the highest performing CMS ACOs, international clinical research organizations, and over 20 state Medicaid agencies.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The article KeyHIE, Life Image Implement FHIR-Based Imaging App To Share Diagnostic Content In Provider Portal appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Illegal copying is prohibited. The leading-edge tool was developed by Life […].

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

OCTOBER 28, 2020

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

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

(doing business as Smile Digital Health (Smile)), a leading FHIR® health data fabric (HDF) and exchange solutions provider, announced the closing of approximately $30 million in Series B growth capital led by existing investors including UPMC Enterprises.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2019

There is also a big push for increasing a patient’s autonomy around their personal health information and the access they have to it, especially via personal devices which are likely to be used in the future to communicate directly with providers, if they aren’t already. FHIR and APIs.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 31, 2019

CARIN, a nonprofit dedicated to consumer-directed exchange of health information, has unveiled its Blue Button HL7 FHIR API model and draft guidance implementation guides.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The biggest impact I had this year: IHE whitepaper on Health Information Exchange models (3.7k) From Implementation-Guide to IHE-Connectathon (2.7k) Healthcare use of Identity level of assurance (2k) When is a document not a Document but still a document?

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 7, 2023

This is a new FHIR specification that expresses what a International Patient Summary (IPS) would look like. This is a FHIR-Document, much like a CDA Document, but using FHIR fundamentals rather than the HL7 v3 model that is the basis of CDA. Note that the Document Sharing exchanges can handle very well this new FHIR-Document.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 18, 2019

IHE has created a FHIR based Patient identity management system for health information exchanges. It is possible that a formal Merge will be supported, but in FHIR a Merge comes with some downsides. When FHIR is a front-end to a non-FHIR system (e.g. The answer is, "Yes, eventually".

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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 is an update of what is going on in Security and Privacy in, and around, the FHIR specification. GDPR driven activities: The Security WG has done an assessment of FHIR in the context of GDPR.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JANUARY 10, 2017

How does one put a FHIR Document into XDS? How does one find a FHIR Document in XDS? To learn more on Document Sharing, start here: Eating an Elephant -- How to approach IHE documentation on Health Information Exchange (HIE) So the Document Sharing family is a Content Agnostic mechanism for sharing Patient specific Documents.

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HIStalk Interviews

MARCH 25, 2019

Grahame Grieve is a principal with Health Intersections of Melbourne, Australia and was the architect-developer of HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR, pronounced “fire”) specification that allows EHRs to exchange information. Was it weird to see FHIR as the only universal topic of HIMSS19?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

In 2023, health IT vendors will continue to work to maintain compliance as part of new regulatory requirements related to the 21st Century Cures Act. The CMS proposed ruling requires impacted payers to build and maintain a FHIR API, starting January 1st, 2026, in effort to improve the cumbersome and costly prior authorization process.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

This profile shows how to build a Document Sharing Exchange using IHE profiled FHIR® standard, rather than the legacy IHE profiles that is dominated by XDS and HL7® v2. The MHDS Profile specifies how a collection of IHE profiles can be used by communities for exchanging health information. 3 - Section 4.0 3 - Section 4.0

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The proposed rule aims to improve the exchange of electronic health information between healthcare providers, payers, and other stakeholders and to streamline the prior authorization process for services and procedures. CMS Calls for FHIR Adoption to Enhance Interoperability in Healthcare IT.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 13, 2022

In addition to the conversion, the scope of the Access Control Decision and Enforcement is expanded beyond the Document Repository to the other services in a Health Information Exchange -- Community. Very focused on #FHIR, but also enabled by existing and successful XDS/XCA Health Information Exchange.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2023

Payers Will Start to Feel the Pain of Ad Hoc Implementation of FHIR Servers Many payers, forced to comply with federal requirements of Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) server implementation, had little time to strategize data feeds and server utilization.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The overall models between XD* and FHIR are the same. Centralized Administration In XDS This architecture is long standing Document Sharing Health Information Exchange based around PIX and XDS. Digital-Signatures might be more likely to succeed in a Controlled Exchange. A directory could be used like HPD or CSD.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2023

Just a few weeks ago, CommonWell was announced as one of six applicants—along with eHealth Exchange, Epic TEFCA Interoperability Systems, Health Gorilla, Kno2 and Konza— accepted to continue in the onboarding process to become a Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN) under TEFCA. billion documents to date.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Add an ITI-65 FHIR Documents Publish option with support in ITI-65 to include a FHIR Document Bundle as an alternative to Binary. Converted from PDF to a FHIR IG. Very focused on #FHIR, but also enabled by existing and successful XDS/XCA Health Information Exchange. was released.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 18, 2016

I might suggest that a potential solution is as a journal of public pseudonyms linked to data access points (FHIR API) and authorization servers. The patient would initiate this, get their pseudonym, scrub their data as much as they want while still adhering to structure (FHIR profile) and integrity (hard to enforce) rules.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 12, 2023

1upHealth’s FHIR®-native platform designed for interoperability and modern computing is used by over 75 enterprise organizations including leading national and regional health plans, the highest performing CMS ACOs, international clinical research organizations, and over 20 state medicaid agencies.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 3, 2023

Responsibilities Responsible for system analysis, design, workflows, configuration, testing, implementation, application & end-user support, and issue resolution Prepares supporting documentation related to system builds, workflows (Visio), test scripts, staff trainings, standard operating procedures, and user guides Escalates issues that adversely (..)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

The key to unlocking the data is interoperability across the entire health ecosystem. Microsoft took a step to address health data interoperability with Azure API for FHIR in 2019. The company's next evolution of that journey is Azure Health Data Services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Telehealth technology, such as virtual nurse assistants and chatbots, facilitate self-service pre-screenings, automate health-information sharing, and assist with diagnostics, freeing up provider time to focus on more patients. Transformation of healthcare data into FHIR format is a key process to enable interoperability.

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Health Populi

APRIL 11, 2019

Seeing AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Google Cloud in large booth spaces on the exhibitor floor space was a visual confirmation that health care IT is now more about data than technology. The cloud and FHIR standards are fostering a new era of interoperability in health care.

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Medicine and Technology

JANUARY 30, 2018

Tethered PHRs became available when patient portals were launched by hospitals, health systems, and clinics to meet the CMS Meaningful Use requirements. FHIR is finally allowing true interoperability to become a reality. We can also expect to see some very interesting days ahead as Amazon dives into health care.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Paths to Interoperability A recent article exposes the woeful silo-ing of public health: Data often has to be faxed and re-entered into new systems manually. Steven Lane, chief medical officer of Health Gorilla , believes in unified standards. Healthcare professionals recognize the value of transparency in sharing data.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2023

HIMSS also released a new Community Care Outcomes Maturity Model (C-COMM) , which is designed to highlight the use of digital communication, population-level data, health information exchange, decision support, and predictive analytics to provide personalized care in non-acute settings.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 16, 2015

The Mobile Health Documents (MHD) profile was born to provide a more simple API to an XDS environment. This happened to be the same timeframe that Grahame was fanning the FHIR flames. So we joined forces and brought the concepts needed for XDS into FHIR®. So now, I take those FHIR based Resources and re-write the profile.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 11, 2016

The topic is Patient Privacy Consent; the discussion is if this should be modeled as a core FHIR Resource, or as a core FHIR Profile upon the Contract Resource. When we first started to model Privacy Consent Directive in FHIR, we had just finished (mostly finished) the CDA Privacy Consent Directive.

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Redox

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Health plans can take shelter with TEFCA, FHIR, and Redox. The good news is that health plans do not need to bear the brunt of the storm alone. Many also hope that TEFCA will set a roadmap of sorts to accelerate the adoption of the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard throughout the healthcare industry.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Teladoc Health and Ovation Medical are among the organizations that will utilize these new capabilities. Meditech will use Google Health's technologies to build a longitudinal health data output that combines data from multiple sources using standard FHIR format.

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