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I was in a discussion around HL7 v2 vs FHIR lately. The technical merits of FHIR were not being debated. There is really nothing one can do in FHIR that one can't do in HL7 v2. Yet the question persisted, what is the reason why FHIR will win over a more compact solution like HL7 v2? At best there is a small fixed pool of people today that understand HL7 v2; while the need to enable Interoperability in Healthcare is expanding fast. MORE
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 MORE
The healthcare technology world is ablaze, on FHIR. New proposed standards for interoperability are being established to allow health systems the ability to share information and facilitate patient access to data. 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. MORE
The article Solving Today’s Interoperability Gaps appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Editorial Drew Ivan FHIR interoperability Rhapsody and Corepoint HealthThis article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Drew Ivan, EVP of Product and Strategy, Rhapsody and Corepoint Health. Healthcare is home to some of the most mind-blowing technological advances when it comes to diagnostics and therapies. MORE
Last week we held our first New Zealand ‘ Clinicians on FHIR ‘ seminar at the HINZ conference in Rotorua. This was really important for me, as it was the first ‘public outing’ of a seminar format that I’d like to see could be repeated wherever Clinicians are getting their first taste of FHIR, and showing how they can participate more fully in FHIR based Interoperability projects. MORE
Rhapsody, a global leader in healthcare data interoperability, today announced that the company will merge with Corepoint Health, the supplier of the Best in KLAS® healthcare integration platform. The transaction will bring together two companies at the forefront of interoperability and create a dynamic combination of technology, talent, services, and trusted customer relationships to address […]. MORE
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) has been busy creating Profiles that leverage the new and exciting FHIR specification. IHE publishes their profiles on [link] IHE subset of Profile on FHIR can be found on the IHE wiki FHIR list An IHE Profile is equivalent to a FHIR Implementation Guide. These constraints can be coded as a FHIR set of conformance resources. MORE
But tapping that potential, according to the agency, requires interoperability — the ability of two or more products, technologies or systems to […]. Editorial 21st Century CURES Act ast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) interoperability Komathi Stem monARC Bionetworks Reusable Technologies (SMART) Substitutable Medical ApplicationsThis article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. MORE
The article KeyHIE, Life Image Implement FHIR-Based Imaging App To Share Diagnostic Content In Provider Portal appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Editorial fast interoperability healthcare resources Geisinger KeyHIE Keystone Health Information Exchange Life Image Viewer appThis article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. MORE
New research has concluded that healthcare CIOs see analyzing social determinants of health data as a top priority going forward, along with tackling data interoperability and cybersecurity. MORE
On a forum for FHIR Foundation members, I raised the subject of where FHIR is on the Gartner Hype Cycle (see Gartner write up , or Wikipedia ). FHIR Foundation member Wes Rishel ( @wrishel ), who’s a FHIR user, and also was a Gartner Analyst before he retired, graciously made this contribution that I could post here. In the last few years I created and positioned a spot for FHIR. FHIR could be at the top of the slope while V2 messages still flow. MORE
I just finished a fantastic book " In the Land of Invented Languages: Adventures in Linguistic Creativity, Madness, and Genius " by Arika Okrent. This book was recommended by Grahame Grieve. I don't have evidence he recommended it, but I am sure it was Grahame. I wondered why he would have recommended such an obscure book. I may have figured out why, but I might have completely over blown the thought. Read more 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
cofounder Indu Subaiya presented their assessment of the drivers of the new interoperability in healthcare. Matthew Holt is co-chair of Health 2.0. At the Dev4Health conference in Cleveland on Monday andTuesday, he and Health 2.0 This is a summary of some of their remarks, and Holt's other observations from the conference MORE
Chesapeake Regional Information System, MedStar Health Research Institute and other LEAP in Health IT awardees will launch new projects focused on use of FHIR and other exchange specs across a variety of use cases 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
Administration Ambulatory Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Doug Clayton eFax FHIR Healthcare Interoperability Healthcare Scene Featured HIPAA Compliant Fax Cover Pages HIPAA Compliant Faxing HIPAA Fines Secure Fax WestFaxThe following is a guest article by Doug Clayton from WestFax. The origin of the modern fax machine dates back to the 1960’s. MORE
FHIR defines a Questionnaire resource that specifies a set of questions for a user, along with a QuestionnaireResponse resource to capture their response. A few of us have been working on proposals for how these problems could be solved in an interoperable way. This extension says that the form filler takes a parameter which is a FHIR Patient resource. A variable has a name, and a value which is a list of resources or FHIR types. FHIR Implementation Standards MORE
Administration Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT LTPAC Regulations Data Sharing FHIR Grahame Grieve Healthcare Interoperability hl7 Kenneth D. Mandl NCPDP Nick Hatt Redox Smart on FHIR standards SureScripts Validic X12Standards are both critical and frustrating. MORE
Note: In case you missed the other 12 Days of #HITChristmas, you can start with the first day here along with the story behind #HITChristmas or read all 12 days here as they are published. 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
They had implemented a pilot project using FHIR. Their use-case was to instrument the DoD systems with a FHIR Server API, and similarly instrument a VA Vista system with a FHIR Client. They found that adding a FHIR Server API in the front of the DoD system to be quite achievable. They found that placing a FHIR Client API behind an instance of a VHA Vista to be quite achievable. He directed his Vista FHIR Client to speak to the Cerner sandbox FHIR Server. 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. Editorial HL7 FHIR Accelerator Program interoperability SDoH The Gravity ProjectThis article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. MORE
The article HHS STAR HIE Program Funds 5 Organizations To Improve Interoperability appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The U.S. MORE
With the release of several proposed rules on Monday, HHS outlined new provisions around advancing interoperability and giving patients easier access to their health data, signaling that open APIs and FHIR will be core components MORE
This year at HIMSS18, InterSystems will be launching a new fast healthcare interoperability resource (FHIR) sandbox, which acts as a virtual testing environment. The technology is designed to enable developers to connect to multi-source health records when they are testing and developing their apps MORE
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? You and I talked about bad FHIR puns and expected to see them all over the place, but we didn’t actually see anything like that. MORE
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. It is abstractly very similar to CDA, but uses all the more simple Resources and Encoding that FHIR has to offer. A FHIR Document is contained in a Bundle, and has a Composition , and all kinds of other stuff. MORE
What is FHIR? FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) Specification is a standard for exchanging healthcare information electronically. FHIR aims to simplify implementation without sacrificing information integrity. FHIR is suitable for use in a wide variety of contexts – mobile phone apps, cloud communications, EHR-based data sharing, server communication in large institutional healthcare providers, and much more. Why is FHIR Important? 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
The CMS Final Rule has caused a lot of debate among the interoperability team at Perficient. Earlier this year, CMS / ONC released their much anticipated “ Final Rule ” which mandates that payers who have anything to do with federally related plans have to do the following: Patient Access API – Provide a FHIR based API that lets patients access their claims and encounter information through 3rd party applications. MORE
FHIR DevDays Amsterdam/Europe edition is coming up soon: November 17-20. For that reason, Firely have partnered with HL7 India, my good friends at Standards and Interoperability lab in the Philipines and myself to offer significant discounts for LMICs countries. 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
The industry is buzzing about the joint CMS and ONC announcement, which proposes a framework to improve interoperability and support seamless and secure access of health […]. Editorial Bill Kotraba FHIR Healthcare Trends Forecast HIMSS Information Builders interoperabilityThis article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Bill Kotraba, vice president, healthcare solutions and strategy, Information Builders. 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. From an interoperability point of view: What is the screening questionnaire? 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 Uncategorized 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
The announcement follows the release of the Interoperability and Patient Access final rule in July, which requires all health plans doing business with the […]. MORE
Healthcare providers are well aware that the interoperability demands imposed by the 21st Century Cures Act are barreling down the pike rapidly and will soon slam their organizations. 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. This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. MORE
Poll: Can Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft really solve healthcare's interoperability problem? My response to the poll from HealthcareITnews Although I have heard it throughout my career, I am excited and hopeful about the big technology companies getting involved in the effort to solve data interoperability. Now, the questions are, which tech giant will win the race, and will any of them work together to make data interoperability possible? MORE
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 22, 2020
The announcement follows the release of the Interoperability and Patient Access final rule in July, which requires all health plans doing business with the […].
Mobi Health News
MAY 4, 2018
cofounder Indu Subaiya presented their assessment of the drivers of the new interoperability in healthcare. Matthew Holt is co-chair of Health 2.0. At the Dev4Health conference in Cleveland on Monday andTuesday, he and Health 2.0 This is a summary of some of their remarks, and Holt's other observations from the conference
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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. Editorial HL7 FHIR Accelerator Program interoperability SDoH The Gravity ProjectThis article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter.
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 […]. 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
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.
Electronic Health Reporter
OCTOBER 1, 2020
The article HHS STAR HIE Program Funds 5 Organizations To Improve Interoperability appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The U.S.
Electronic Health Reporter
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
The article Solving Today’s Interoperability Gaps appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Editorial Drew Ivan FHIR interoperability Rhapsody and Corepoint HealthThis article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Drew Ivan, EVP of Product and Strategy, Rhapsody and Corepoint Health. Healthcare is home to some of the most mind-blowing technological advances when it comes to diagnostics and therapies.
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Healthcare providers are well aware that the interoperability demands imposed by the 21st Century Cures Act are barreling down the pike rapidly and will soon slam their organizations.
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. The article Health Level Seven International Publishes FHIR Release 4 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter.
Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 29, 2019
The healthcare technology world is ablaze, on FHIR. New proposed standards for interoperability are being established to allow health systems the ability to share information and facilitate patient access to data. 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.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
This year at HIMSS18, InterSystems will be launching a new fast healthcare interoperability resource (FHIR) sandbox, which acts as a virtual testing environment. The technology is designed to enable developers to connect to multi-source health records when they are testing and developing their apps
Health Intersections
OCTOBER 29, 2020
FHIR DevDays Amsterdam/Europe edition is coming up soon: November 17-20. For that reason, Firely have partnered with HL7 India, my good friends at Standards and Interoperability lab in the Philipines and myself to offer significant discounts for LMICs countries.
Healthcare IT Today
MAY 28, 2020
Administration Ambulatory Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Doug Clayton eFax FHIR Healthcare Interoperability Healthcare Scene Featured HIPAA Compliant Fax Cover Pages HIPAA Compliant Faxing HIPAA Fines Secure Fax WestFaxThe following is a guest article by Doug Clayton from WestFax. The origin of the modern fax machine dates back to the 1960’s.
Healthcare IT Today
JULY 11, 2019
Rhapsody, a global leader in healthcare data interoperability, today announced that the company will merge with Corepoint Health, the supplier of the Best in KLAS® healthcare integration platform. The transaction will bring together two companies at the forefront of interoperability and create a dynamic combination of technology, talent, services, and trusted customer relationships to address […].
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? You and I talked about bad FHIR puns and expected to see them all over the place, but we didn’t actually see anything like that.
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 29, 2019
Administration Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Clinical EMR-EHR Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT LTPAC Regulations Data Sharing FHIR Grahame Grieve Healthcare Interoperability hl7 Kenneth D. Mandl NCPDP Nick Hatt Redox Smart on FHIR standards SureScripts Validic X12Standards are both critical and frustrating.
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. 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
Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
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
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
With the release of several proposed rules on Monday, HHS outlined new provisions around advancing interoperability and giving patients easier access to their health data, signaling that open APIs and FHIR will be core components
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
Chesapeake Regional Information System, MedStar Health Research Institute and other LEAP in Health IT awardees will launch new projects focused on use of FHIR and other exchange specs across a variety of use cases
Perficient
DECEMBER 11, 2018
What is FHIR? FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) Specification is a standard for exchanging healthcare information electronically. FHIR aims to simplify implementation without sacrificing information integrity. FHIR is suitable for use in a wide variety of contexts – mobile phone apps, cloud communications, EHR-based data sharing, server communication in large institutional healthcare providers, and much more. Why is FHIR Important?
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
Electronic Health Reporter
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
The article KeyHIE, Life Image Implement FHIR-Based Imaging App To Share Diagnostic Content In Provider Portal appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Editorial fast interoperability healthcare resources Geisinger KeyHIE Keystone Health Information Exchange Life Image Viewer appThis article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 17, 2020
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.
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. From an interoperability point of view: What is the screening questionnaire? 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 Uncategorized
Perficient
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
The CMS Final Rule has caused a lot of debate among the interoperability team at Perficient. Earlier this year, CMS / ONC released their much anticipated “ Final Rule ” which mandates that payers who have anything to do with federally related plans have to do the following: Patient Access API – Provide a FHIR based API that lets patients access their claims and encounter information through 3rd party applications.
Healthcare Exchange Standards
AUGUST 29, 2017
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) has been busy creating Profiles that leverage the new and exciting FHIR specification. IHE publishes their profiles on [link] IHE subset of Profile on FHIR can be found on the IHE wiki FHIR list An IHE Profile is equivalent to a FHIR Implementation Guide. These constraints can be coded as a FHIR set of conformance resources.
David Chou
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Poll: Can Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft really solve healthcare's interoperability problem? My response to the poll from HealthcareITnews Although I have heard it throughout my career, I am excited and hopeful about the big technology companies getting involved in the effort to solve data interoperability. Now, the questions are, which tech giant will win the race, and will any of them work together to make data interoperability possible?
Health Intersections
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
On a forum for FHIR Foundation members, I raised the subject of where FHIR is on the Gartner Hype Cycle (see Gartner write up , or Wikipedia ). FHIR Foundation member Wes Rishel ( @wrishel ), who’s a FHIR user, and also was a Gartner Analyst before he retired, graciously made this contribution that I could post here. In the last few years I created and positioned a spot for FHIR. FHIR could be at the top of the slope while V2 messages still flow.
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.
Electronic Health Reporter
APRIL 8, 2019
But tapping that potential, according to the agency, requires interoperability — the ability of two or more products, technologies or systems to […]. Editorial 21st Century CURES Act ast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) interoperability Komathi Stem monARC Bionetworks Reusable Technologies (SMART) Substitutable Medical ApplicationsThis article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited.
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 was really important for me, as it was the first ‘public outing’ of a seminar format that I’d like to see could be repeated wherever Clinicians are getting their first taste of FHIR, and showing how they can participate more fully in FHIR based Interoperability projects.
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Note: In case you missed the other 12 Days of #HITChristmas, you can start with the first day here along with the story behind #HITChristmas or read all 12 days here as they are published.
Health Intersections
JULY 17, 2018
FHIR defines a Questionnaire resource that specifies a set of questions for a user, along with a QuestionnaireResponse resource to capture their response. A few of us have been working on proposals for how these problems could be solved in an interoperable way. This extension says that the form filler takes a parameter which is a FHIR Patient resource. A variable has a name, and a value which is a list of resources or FHIR types. FHIR Implementation Standards
Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 27, 2019
The industry is buzzing about the joint CMS and ONC announcement, which proposes a framework to improve interoperability and support seamless and secure access of health […]. Editorial Bill Kotraba FHIR Healthcare Trends Forecast HIMSS Information Builders interoperabilityThis article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Bill Kotraba, vice president, healthcare solutions and strategy, Information Builders.
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. It is abstractly very similar to CDA, but uses all the more simple Resources and Encoding that FHIR has to offer. A FHIR Document is contained in a Bundle, and has a Composition , and all kinds of other stuff.
Healthcare Exchange Standards
MARCH 19, 2018
They had implemented a pilot project using FHIR. Their use-case was to instrument the DoD systems with a FHIR Server API, and similarly instrument a VA Vista system with a FHIR Client. They found that adding a FHIR Server API in the front of the DoD system to be quite achievable. They found that placing a FHIR Client API behind an instance of a VHA Vista to be quite achievable. He directed his Vista FHIR Client to speak to the Cerner sandbox FHIR Server.
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 3, 2020
New research has concluded that healthcare CIOs see analyzing social determinants of health data as a top priority going forward, along with tackling data interoperability and cybersecurity.
Healthcare Exchange Standards
JULY 4, 2016
I just finished a fantastic book " In the Land of Invented Languages: Adventures in Linguistic Creativity, Madness, and Genius " by Arika Okrent. This book was recommended by Grahame Grieve. I don't have evidence he recommended it, but I am sure it was Grahame. I wondered why he would have recommended such an obscure book. I may have figured out why, but I might have completely over blown the thought. Read more
Healthcare Exchange Standards
APRIL 18, 2016
I was in a discussion around HL7 v2 vs FHIR lately. The technical merits of FHIR were not being debated. There is really nothing one can do in FHIR that one can't do in HL7 v2. Yet the question persisted, what is the reason why FHIR will win over a more compact solution like HL7 v2? At best there is a small fixed pool of people today that understand HL7 v2; while the need to enable Interoperability in Healthcare is expanding fast.
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