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FHIR patient extensible data portability

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Discussions at FHIR DevDays raised this question of a basic way to leverage FHIR API capability to enable the Patient beyond the limited Apps their provider has approved. If a healthcare provider offers a FHIR API (e.g. argonaut) -- meeting the Meaningful Use "API" requirement. Who does this?

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Apple Health app will link to your medical records (thanks to FHIR)

Medicine and Technology

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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Looking for career opportunity

Healthcare Exchange Standards

I am especially excited about the latest standard from HL7 - FHIR. The FHIR standard leverages modern platforms and interaction models. It models the healthcare data-model using XML or JSON; and interaction-model using http REST. It appears I am going to miss the September HL7 meeting in Baltimore.

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Simplifying Security Audit Standards

Healthcare Exchange Standards

This defines the purpose of a security Audit Log, the uses of this audit log information, including how it is used to provide patients with accounting of disclosures. This specification has been leveraged by many regional initiatives including in the USA the Meaningful Use Stage 2. So far there has been little interest.

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Judy Faulkner talks lessons learned from Epic's COVID-19 response

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Care Everywhere will pull in data about the patient from Epic and from any other healthcare system that uses the standards and has signed up with Carequality , and if they have done that, then that data can be pulled in too. On the value of FHIR for data exchange: I think the key to many things is standardization. They were afraid to.