Friday at 5: Key Themes from the ONC API Showcase
Follow and join the conversations with #ONCAPI. A recent ONC virtual event, Accelerating APIs in Healthcare: A Year in Review and Momentum for 2021, featured more…
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Taking a LEAP: Transposing the Apps Model for Individual Health Records to Population Health
By Tracy Okubo & Kenneth Mandl – Because of advances in interoperability, it’s becoming increasingly common for people and their healthcare providers to access and share information from EHRs using apps.
“Mobilizing a Million Hearts” Through SMART on FHIR
By Kevin Chaney, Kristen Miller & Allison Dennis – Estimating risks and weighing the benefits of health interventions is a challenge for patients and their providers. Patients may wonder if they should be thinking twice before having that second portion of desert. Doctors may consider recommending a daily aspirin.
Moving FHIR from Aspirational to Operational
By William Hersh MD – After years of giving lip service to standards, the health information/informatics community is now taking interoperability very seriously. The reason is obvious: we have spent a decade ramping up adoption of EHRs in the US and elsewhere, and we have learned….
Pharmacy Health IT: A FHIR-based Care Coordination Platform Goes National
By Brett Coughlin – One of four High Impact Pilot recipients, which developed a care plan platform to help pharmacists coordinate care with patients, is now operating in all 50 states. This tool was one example of how pharmacists’ responded to the wave of…
New Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®)
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has published information on the Health Level 7 (HL7) exchange standard, Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) to the eCQI Resource Center.
Three Myths about Interoperability in Healthcare
By Drew Ivan – Over the last decade, achieving true interoperability has been an ongoing pain point across the healthcare ecosystem. Provider organizations and payers alike have been slow to implement this technology under the guise that interoperability is complicated and potentially, not fully attainable.
ONC is FHIR’d up: Unwrapping the new Inferno Testing Suite
By Steven Posnack & John Snyder – In a recent blog post, we discussed the growing use of the Health Level 7 FHIR® standard. FHIR is just one tool in the toolbox helping improve the interoperability of health information, a goal of the 21st Century Cures Act.
FHIR for CTOs
By Nicola Ryzhikov – I wanted to share an introduction of FHIR for CTOs and technology leads interested in modern health technologies that will be around long-term. FHIR is an interoperability standard created by the the HL7 international organization to exchange medical and other related healthcare information between systems.