By Dr. Pawan Jindal – FHIR (pronounced “fire”) which stands for Fast Health Interoperability Resources, is an interoperability standard for healthcare data developed by HL7. FHIR has gained a lot of momentum in a very short time because it is simple to understand and is based on modern technologies.
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By Dr. David Hay – I’ve always thought (and I think generally accepted) that IT projects—particularly those that involve sharing information—have a greater chance of success when the people that will be affected by the project are deeply involved with the project itself.
HL7 is pleased to announce that Release 3 of FHIR has just been published. The FHIR community invested a huge amount of work in this release. How is FHIR being used in healthcare today?
CommonWell Health Alliance® announced it has completed building the first set of The Argonaut Project’s FHIR specifications into its core services—making it the first national network to enable comprehensive FHIR-based-exchange at scale.
Check out the Health IT versions of these classic holiday tunes! Wishing you a Merry MACRA and hoping all your chestnuts will be roasted on…
The job will not be complete until all health records are digital and interoperable. Recently making news in health information exchange is Carequality, Kno2 & HealtHIE Nevada, FCC Connect2Health Task Force, Surescripts, Translational Software, Inc. and NetDirector.
ONC Challenges designed to foster private sector innovation to enable consumers and providers to easily and securely access and share electronic health information. Phase 2 remains open to all potential applicants with submissions due November 7, 2016.
By Karen B. DeSalvo & Steven Posnack – As a health care consumer, imagine if you were able to choose a software application to create a secure snapshot of your health information, like pictures that extend over the course of your lifetime.
By Adam Culbertson – The promise of EHRs is that they will improve quality and lower cost. The basis of this claim is in part due to a presumption of EHR interoperability. Patient matching has been identified as a critical barrier to interoperability. Patient matching refers to the act of accurately linking individuals to their health data located in various disparate electronic health databases.