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Mobile Health Document Sharing (MHDS) Profile

Healthcare Exchange Standards

These IHE profiles include support for patient identification, health document location and retrieval, provider directories, and the protection of privacy and security. MHDS shows how several IHE profiles work together to provide a standards-based, interoperable approach to community health information sharing. 3 - Section 4.0

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Bonus Features – December 17, 2023 – 97% of hospitals now capable of enabling electronic access to patient records, 70% of hospitals face hidden business continuity challenge, plus 31 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

Medically Home added Arcadian Health , a Louisiana-based mobile health service, to its network. Empathy is partnering with Carallel to offer bereavement support to caregivers as a covered benefit through employer-sponsored health plans. Home care EMR software maker Smartcare Software rebranded as Aaniie.

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Who will regulate mHealth? Patient Engagement at Crossroads; New Alliance Takes On Interoperability

Chilmark Research

Public vs. Private Oversight of Mobile Health. The announcement of CommonWell Health Alliance was likely the biggest story to come out of HIMSS (Allscripts acquiring longtime HIE partner dbMotion may have been a close second). The group’s stated purpose is to enable interoperability across the five founding members’ EHRs.

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The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

Increasing healthcare consolidation of hospitals has exacerbated the problem of lack of interoperability. Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) have been woefully underfunded and have fallen short of their vision. Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) have been woefully underfunded and have fallen short of their vision.

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What is MHD beyond XDS-on-FHIR?

Healthcare Exchange Standards

So back in 2011 I wrote the first profile in IHE that was targeting ‘ease of use by lightweight application platforms such as Mobile Health Applications”. The Mobile Health Documents (MHD) profile was born to provide a more simple API to an XDS environment. The Mobile Health Documents (MHD) is the result.

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Bonus Features – December 18, 2022 – Half of Americans avoiding hospitals due to staffing shortages, 62% of patients don’t trust health plan info when searching for providers, and much more

Healthcare IT Today

The Federal Trade Commission released an updated Mobile Health Apps Tool created with input from ONC, OCR, and the FDA. The Sequoia Project published an implementation guide for HIE technology for vendors, networks, and testers.

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Patient Identity Management the IHE way

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Most important, this is not an interoperability problem Nationwide Patient Identity Management, especially in a federation like the USA, is a balance between quality, privacy, and safety. Where health data are involved, mistakes in identity can be a permanent privacy violation. Here are the IHE relevant works on the topic of Patient.