Anthropic expanded its Claude model's offerings in healthcare and life sciences, adding HIPAA-ready connectors and agent skills. This enables support for administrative processes and research across payer, provider, and patient workflows.
Anthropic significantly enhanced Claude's capabilities by expanding 'Claude for Healthcare' and 'Claude for Life Sciences.' This provides a suite of tools usable in HIPAA-compliant environments, enabling healthcare providers and companies to support data interoperability and clinical operations.
PQT Health has launched 'Dyvine EHRβ’', a next-generation, AI-powered electronic health record system. The platform aims to strengthen care delivery in rural areas by integrating cloud technology and telehealth, addressing resource limitations in small clinics and hospitals.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed the new 'Health Data, Technology and Interoperability' rule (HTI-5). This aims to accelerate FHIR-based interoperability and revise information blocking rules by simplifying the Health IT certification program.
Anthropic launched 'Claude for Healthcare,' significantly expanding its AI model's utility in the medical and life sciences sectors. This enables connections to industry-standard databases like CMS and ICD-10, aiming to streamline clinical and administrative workflows.
When a consultant needs to view medication data from Health Cloud using FHIR standards, they should utilize the 'Clinical data model'. This model aligns with HL7 FHIR R4 and provides objects and fields necessary to store and access clinical information such as medications, conditions, and encounters.
Microsoft announced through its webinar series, βVoices of Healthcare Cloud,β that FHIR interoperability enables low-code/no-code development. The session showcased how to utilize the Power Platform and FHIR APIs, demonstrating applications from data aggregation to achieving concrete business and clinical outcomes.
CMS is transitioning existing eCQMs to FHIR-based digital quality measures, preparing for reporting changes starting in 2026. This shift mandates moving from traditional periodic file submissions to continuous data acquisition via standardized APIs directly from EHRs.
As connected health ecosystems grow in complexity, shared infrastructure governed by common rulesβnot just individual integrationsβis required. The article explains that the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) is crucial for solving interoperability challenges by providing a trust and policy layer that complements FHIR's technical mechanism.
The CMS NPI Registry publishes comprehensive provider information for physician BETHANY C DYKES MD. This data includes technical aspects crucial for health information exchange, such as multiple practice addresses and FHIR endpoint URLs.
TechVariable provides solutions using FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) to achieve healthcare data interoperability without requiring the rebuilding of legacy EHR or claims systems. This helps meet CMS regulations and modernize data exchange.
Jay Nakashima, President at eHealth Exchange, discusses recent advancements in health data exchange. He highlights the potential expansion of healthcare information sharing, particularly through TEFCA and bulk FHIR data access.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is transitioning electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) to digital quality measures (dQMs) using FHIR-based standards and soliciting public comment. A webinar will be held to detail this transition process and the dQM requirements.
Drummond Group surveyed Health IT developers regarding their plans to comply with new electronic prior authorization (ePA) API criteria. The results indicate growing intent to certify, but also reveal mixed implementation strategies and wide variation in testing approaches, pointing to increasing complexity across the industry.
WEDI is aiming for deregulation in the health IT sector through a proposed rule (HTI-5 NPRM). The proposal seeks to reduce burdens by reviewing technical standards and certification criteria, thereby providing flexibility to both developers and providers to promote innovation.
The HHS published the HTI-5 proposed rule on December 29, 2025. This aims to enhance interoperability using FHIR and AI while reducing developer burden and updating information blocking rules.
This article provides a comprehensive guide to the fundamentals of integrating with Epic Systems' FHIR API. It helps developers understand core concepts necessary for building applications like patient portals or clinical decision support systems, starting with basic API requests.
AWS has released an open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, enabling access to FHIR resources in AWS HealthLake via natural language interfaces. This simplifies complex healthcare data operations, allowing developers to build real-time applications using AI agents.
The direct-to-patient (DTP) drug distribution model is gaining importance due to increased access and transparency. Success requires an interoperable data infrastructure that securely and quickly links data from e-prescriptions through benefit verification.
Detailed profile information for healthcare provider PATRICK KENNEDY Jr. was retrieved from the NPPES NPI Registry. This data provides not only his multiple practice locations and contact details but also access information to electronic health records, including a specific FHIR URL.