Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 10, 2021

The solution is to leverage this existing solution, and just add FHIR. My point in this article is that this does not need to be a restriction on those that do want to move on to FHIR. Just add FHIR FHIR is a content format. Thus for those that want a FHIR content format, the choice would be the IPS rather than the C-CDA.

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FHIR Health Information HIE Interoperability 104

Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

This article is where I muse about getting to that beautiful future based on #FHIR. Break Everything One possibly that some advocate is turn off what we have today, and everyone and everything switch to using http RESTful FHIR. This pair of transports now has a third FHIR mode, so Karen's Cross is now three dimensional.

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FHIR HIE Healthcare IT 72

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. My tutorial is Thursday morning, covering two quarters, about 3 hours.

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FHIR 93

Healthcare Exchange Standards

JUNE 23, 2021

See Security Topics , Consent/Privacy , and FHIR for index to these articles.

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FHIR 65

Docnotes

MARCH 4, 2024

Wondering how to respond to this paragraph? Applying to be an SCN? I’ll help you for free. No kidding. No strings attached.

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FHIR 52

Healthcare Exchange Standards

JUNE 17, 2022

This kind of double pointers is discouraged in REST and in FHIR. The main difference from the FHIR core Consent I outlined in my Consent article is that this might be a specific kind of Privacy Consent delegating authority , and the RelatedPerson instance would be indicated specifically in the.provision.agent.

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FHIR 40

Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 1, 2021

Given that #FHIR heats a hot beverage. Dave Pyke and I collaborated on a FHIR Implementation Guide on how to brew a good hot beverage, following RFC-2324 from April 1st 1998 -- see the our " Hot Beverage FHIR Implementation Guide " #AprilFoolsDay

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FHIR 52

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

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FHIR EHR 92

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. Thus FHIR includes many capabilities that can be leveraged to meet GDPR needs.

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FHIR 56

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 ). One resource that is not in the diagram above is the Encounter.

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FHIR 84

Health Intersections

APRIL 24, 2018

It’s less than 2 months to FHIR DevDays USA. FHIR DevDays USA 2018, Boston, MA, 19-21 June. When we – that is, the FHIR Community and the people from Firely – used to be Furore – started FHIR DevDays in Amsterdam back in 2014 it was the prime educational event for FHIR in the world.

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FHIR 42

Health Intersections

MARCH 28, 2020

In a number of contexts, people are using FHIR in production to make or report on patient appointments. It’s a natural question, then, how the COVID-19 epidemic impacts on this. How to represent this in FHIR: Mark an appointment as a virtual appointment. it) has co-morbidities that are known risk factors.

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FHIR Telehealth Interoperability 90

Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Just updated the FHIR core spec Security and Privacy Module with a simple message, yellow highlight for the new text: 6.0.3 Security FHIR is focused on the data access methods and encoding leveraging existing Security solutions. Revised to add these notes -- Not on the FHIR standard, because it is a bit too prescriptive for HL7.

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FHIR 40

HAY on FHIR

AUGUST 31, 2017

A really short post to record how to download the core extensions in the spec (This came up in a FHIR Chat today). This is particularly useful if you are setting up your own FHIR server and want to pre-load them with the code definitions in the spec. They can be found at: [link].

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FHIR 45

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). Finally the actual FHIR Conformance artifacts can be generated.

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FHIR Interoperability 45

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).

FHIR 40

FHIR 40

Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 18, 2019

IHE has created a FHIR based Patient identity management system for health information exchanges. Added to this is a set of requirements and expectations around how Merging (Link and UnLink) are to be implemented. It is possible that a formal Merge will be supported, but in FHIR a Merge comes with some downsides.

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FHIR EHR Health Information 44

Health Intersections

AUGUST 30, 2019

This track shows that patients are the ultimate beneficiaries of FHIR. The Patient Innovator Track takes place on Wednesday November 20th, the first day of the event. · Get connected to the FHIR ecosystem and learn about the specification that’s transforming the industry. Your app or device does not need to be FHIR-enabled (yet).

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FHIR EHR Health IT 61

Health Intersections

JUNE 3, 2018

We’ve now published 3 FHIR milestone releases, and we’re working towards the 4th. We still haven’t clearly documented how you determine what version of FHIR is in use. Balloting the FHIR infrastructure as normative has forced us to finally come to resolution on this, after much long discussion.

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FHIR 48

Health Intersections

JUNE 13, 2019

The problem with the last set of resources is that we don’t know how to compute those kind of choices – so the APIs can’t enforce them. Patients would generally think in functional terms – ‘all my records except for my X”, where X could be something like: contact details (e.g. That’s work in progress.

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FHIR Mental health 49

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 3, 2024

While healthcare organizations expect 38% of employees to use AI tools by 2028 , 78% say they don’t know how to train employees, according to research from Amazon Web Services. Partnerships The Sequoia Project and HL7 International are collaborating to accelerate the adoption of FHIR standards. The good news?

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FHIR EHR Healthcare IT Primary Care 99

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. If I have a FHIR Document, how would I publish that into XDS?

FHIR 40

FHIR HIE Health Information Interoperability 40

Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 10, 2017

In FHIR STU3 there are now some common query parameters. Propose using common "patient" query parameter for patient scope With the new FHIR STU3 common shared query parameters , we could identify the specific patient within the Scope. Also, I don't propose how to use negative scopes. I think this more powerful.

FHIR 40

FHIR 40

HAY on FHIR

APRIL 5, 2021

So we’ve talked about how to represent an immunization program both in the abstract (the overall definition of a national plan) and the specific (the plan applied to an individual). In addition, we discussed how to submit the actual administrations to the registry.

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FHIR Nursing 71

Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The project has been successful in developing and implementing a number of standards, including the Argonaut FHIR Data Exchange Standard and the Argonaut FHIR API Standard. The Argonaut Project focuses on the development and implementation of FHIR, a standard for exchanging healthcare data.

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Interoperability FHIR Leadership Health Data 64

Healthcare Exchange Standards

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This winter quarter will be a lighter load, recognizing the holidays: Patient Scheduling, prospective look at FHIR R5/6, and evaluating impact of Gender Harmony. The Non-Patient File Sharing (NPFS) Profile defines how to share non-patient files such as clinical workflow definitions, domain policies, and stylesheets.

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FHIR HIE Health Information 70

HAY on FHIR

MARCH 6, 2019

Michel (author of Forge ) pointed me to it when i was asking slicing questions on the FHIR chat. A great introduction to profiling in FHIR using the Forge tool for concrete examples and well worth a look … Just came across this resource from the firely folk.

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FHIR 45

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But despite the availability of FHIR and of APIs from many vendors, interoperability is often described as “difficult and “not frictionless” according to Loyd Bittle, CEO and Founder at Innovar Healthcare. Patients, regulators, and payers are insisting on data exchange in health care.

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Interoperability HIE EMR Health Data 66

Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 13, 2017

FHIR has no security model. FHIR is designed first and most important as a data model with a few expected interaction models (REST, Messaging, Document). There are many workgroups working on specifications for how to apply OAuth to FHIR REST, but these are not fundamental to FHIR, they are alternatives.

FHIR 40

FHIR 40

Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 18, 2017

I have been pushing IHE to add FHIR conformance resources to their publication mechanism. I now have published the full set of FHIR conformance resources for PDQm and MHD profiles. FHIR conformance resources are available to carry programatically the constraints that historically IHE has written narratively into an IHE Profile.

FHIR 40

FHIR Interoperability 40

Healthcare Exchange Standards

JANUARY 30, 2024

In FHIR R4 - [link] IHE has a relevant Implementation Guide – Basic Audit Log Patterns (BALP) [link] within BALP IG, which is all relevant to Security/Privacy audit log recording and access to that recording using FHIR, there is a specific profile of the AuditEvent resource for recording a known disclosure.

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FHIR EHR Interoperability 44

Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I have covered the vision of Data Segmentation for Privacy (DS4P) concept, and outline how a Security Labeling Service (SLS) would enable this grandiose vision of DS4P. However, there are stepping stones: The following is a slightly update on an article I wrote in July 2015 on how to set the confidentialityCode. for "_confidentiality".

FHIR 65

FHIR HIE Health Information Health Data 65

Healthcare Exchange Standards

JANUARY 24, 2017

This means that when I attended the FHIR Connectathon 14, prior to the HL7 Workgroup Meeting in San Antonio TX , I was shocked to experience the new FHIR Connectathon. The others from the FHIR core-team have seen the changes over-time, so the transition is not as shocking as it was for me. FHIR has matured, it is growing up.

FHIR 40

FHIR 40

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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FHIR Health Information HIE EHR 45

Healthcare Exchange Standards

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

There were three brave soles willing to try IHE-MHD Profile here at the FHIR Connectathon. They had a specific goal: They wanted to test the IHE-MHD Profile against general purpose FHIR Servers. Specifically FHIR Servers that have not declared IHE-MHD Profile, but which do declare support for the fundamentals that IHE-MHD needs.

FHIR 40

FHIR 40

Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 4, 2023

This conversion enabled better and more comprehensive definition of the Provenance linkage between the derived FHIR clinical Resources and the source documents from the HIE. This Appendix also includes discussion about refrains and obligations, the FHIR Consent fundamentals, and Security Labeling Service models.

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FHIR HIE Interoperability Health Data 117

Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 4, 2016

Rene asked for an outline of Security topics for FHIR for an upcoming tutorial he is giving. The easy answer is go read all my blog articles under the #FHIR topic The second easy answer is to point at the FHIR security pages. There are efforts underway to create a Privacy Consent Directive modeled in FHIR.

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FHIR mHealth 40