Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 10, 2018

I will be giving a face-to-face tutorial on the topic of "IHE on FHIR" at both HL7 Workgroup meeting in Cologne, May 12-18 FHIR Dev Days in Boston, June 19-21 So, if you are in Europe, sign up for the tutorial at HL7 workgroup meeting. If you are in the USA, sign up for the tutorial at FHIR Dev Days.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I will be giving the FHIR Privacy and Security tutorial again at Sydney HL7 meeting on Thursday afternoon (our normal Wednesday afternoon agenda slot). See [link] As always I welcome any suggestions for improving the slides.

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HAY on FHIR

MAY 8, 2019

At the recent Working Group Meeting in Montreal, I participated in the ‘v2 to FHIR’ stream – focused on how can the HL7 community give advice to implementers about converting v2 messages into FHIR bundles. To actually process (convert to FHIR) a message, click the ‘Convert’ button to the upper right.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JULY 16, 2021

I work with the team on the transition to FHIR. The details on my speaking engagement at virtual HIMSS are that it is about the opportunity that is coming (not yet here) enabled by FHIR and the CarePlan resource in FHIR. It is also the likely solution you would have needed to use to fly to Vegas -- In AUGUST!!!

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JULY 26, 2019

This week the ITI and PCC face-to-face meeting approved new/updated FHIR conformance resources (ImplementationGuide, StructureDefintion, CapabilityStatement, ValueSet, CodeSystem, and OperationDefinition) for publication. These have been aligned with FHIR R4.

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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. But it’s where the patient is not going to turn up in person and some mixture of phone and/or video meeting service is going to be used.

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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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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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HAY on FHIR

MAY 31, 2019

So a little while back I wrote about an app I developed during the WGM Connectathon to send an HL7 v2 message to a converter app, and display the response (a FHIR Bundle ) in a number of visualizations after validating it using the community supplied validation tool (actually, exposed by the reference servers via the $validate operation).

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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.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JUNE 25, 2018

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. Proposed quick-and-dirty solution?

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Digital Health Global

AUGUST 15, 2023

Leveraging 1upHealth’s data platform designed on the FHIR® protocol, Alliance members now have access to interoperability requirement support including prior authorization, payer-to-payer data exchange, and patient access. “We For more information visit www.1up.health. 1up.health.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Because every health plan has unique payment rules and medical policies, the process currently lacks the kinds of automated checks that other systems have, and that would ensure that information submitted by the practice meets plan requirements for a pre-approval evaluation. The release of FHIR in the mid-2010 decade changed everything.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

Buckle also shares her experience at the Interop Showcase and details of the recent CommonWell FHIR Connectathon where CommonWell members leveraged FHIR to improve interoperability. FHIR, the API for automated data sharing, is mature and being adopted. This more recent standard makes trust automatable as well.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 30, 2021

I don't mind the pace slowdown, and initially didn't mind the lack of face-to-face meetings, but lately I have found myself wishing for the face-to-face workgroup meetings. I likely just want some of the positive meeting dynamics, while noting that most of the time the meetings were compulsory and a waste of time.

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Health Intersections

MARCH 4, 2018

In discussions with implementers, one question that has come up quite a lot recently is whether you should store FHIR resources natively in your database or not. In principle, FHIR resources (like all HL7 specifications) are designed for exchange between systems, rather than as a database storage format.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Bulk Data Access The addition of a Bulk Data Access in #FHIR was a hot topic at the San Diego workgroup meeting. I have addressed this topic in FHIR before, FHIR does not need a deidentify=true parameter. Back then the solution was to add a parameter to any FHIR query asking that the results be deidentified.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 16, 2018

It is better to put pointers (to FHIR Servers) onto the chain. Thus there will be many FHIR Servers that hold your data (might be others than FHIR, but why bother mentioning them). However probably best to presume many FHIR servers. permissioned chains, or encrypted, etc). So pointers are good, data are bad.

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HAY on FHIR

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Just because something was an OBX in v2, that doesn’t mean it should be an Observation or Observation.component in FHIR. In FHIR, Observation and Observation.component have specific purposes: Observation is about information that is being collected/observed. Extensions will not be searchable in most systems including test servers.

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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. There were a 16 distinct tracks.

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FHIR 40

Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 4, 2023

Health IT Vendors should review this supplement and determine if the capabilities within meet their interoperability needs. 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.

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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. For more information visit 1up.health.

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Health Data FHIR Interoperability Digital Health 74

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Our job is to ensure that all the certified EMRs meet a certain set of expectations,” explained Lee. “To Meet those expectations and you can participate in the ecosystem.” The adoption of FHIR-based standards in Ontario is a notable development. To be clear, we don’t set these expectations.

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Interoperability EMR FHIR Healthcare IT 101

Redox

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Here are some specific reflections: FHIR adoption: We missed the mark on our HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) growth prediction. It certainly is growing, but FHIR has not picked up the steam we had hoped for in 2023. We reflected on that in our recap of 2023 FHIR DevDays. Sadly, he was wrong.

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Interoperability FHIR Digital Health eHealth 59

Health Intersections

OCTOBER 10, 2018

I’m very honoured to make a guest today from Mike Morris, who I met at the HL7 FHIR Applications Round Table in Washington DC a couple of weeks ago. Mike is a cancer patient who is using FHIR improve his own treatment. With FHIR, we can now integrate multiple vendor systems (e.g., Cancer Rears Its Ugly Head.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2024

Healthcare organizations use b.well’s scalable, FHIR-based platform to put consumers at the heart of every interaction, derive more value from their technology investments, and surface their services as part of a growing number of digital healthcare ecosystems.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JULY 17, 2016

The paper discusses the experience so far with applying the W3C PROV model to the HL7 FHIR model. Search for "FHIR". I wrote a paper for W3C PROV program with Arnon and Adriane from Mitre. Much of the material and inspiration came from my blog post in March on " Provenance vs Audit - its not a competition ".

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JANUARY 21, 2020

The Mobile Health Document Sharing (MHDS) Profile is a 100% FHIR Document Sharing infrastructure leveraging many IHE FHIR profiles including MHD. This Document Sharing includes support for sharing FHIR-Documents, but is content format agnostic, thus equally capable of sharing CDA documents, PDF documents, or imaging.

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Mobile Health FHIR 89

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. For more information visit [link].

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Health Data FHIR Interoperability Digital Health 88

Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

We met up last week at the DIA Europe 2022 meeting (Drug Information Association) in the cool SQUARE Conference Center in Brussels, Belgium (my current home base for work and life). He had me at the statement, “I believe health data is medicine.”.

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HAY on FHIR

JANUARY 23, 2020

The 23 rd FHIR connectathon in Sydney is almost upon us, and despite the trials and tribulations that the weather has thrown at us, it’s going to be a great event with over 150 people currently scheduled to attend. For myself, I’m going to participate in the FHIR shorthand track. In keeping with the FHIR ethos, the Mitre corp.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 21, 2022

The duties of this position can be carried out remotely if this meets the business needs of CORE. Code, test and maintain electronic clinical quality measures using Clinical Quality Language (CQL) and Fast Healthcare Interoperable Resources (FHIR). Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), FHIR) and the versioning process.

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Read more… Making Healthcare App Development and FHIR Data Access Easy. Digital health developers shouldn’t have to learn the hundreds of flavors of FHIR implementations and APIs to share data , Patrick Schiess at Darena Solutions told John. Half of patients are willing to switch providers for a better billing experience.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

The IHE ITI-Tech committee finished our meeting this week a bit overtime, but very satisfying. HIE-Whitepaper -- the whitepaper needed to be updated to include the FHIR based models that we have published in the MHD family. is moving away from using DocumentManifest toward using List FHIR Resource., See [IHE ITI TF-1] E.9

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