The FDA emphasizes the growing importance of utilizing Real-World Data (RWD) in drug approval processes, demanding higher transparency and standardization. Adherence to international standards like CDISC and HL7 FHIR is crucial, impacting global healthcare IT practices including Japan.
Morgan Dowell, co-founder of Saga IT, has been recognized for his achievements based on over two decades in software engineering and deep specialization in healthcare integration. He provides solutions utilizing standards like HL7 and FHIR for medical data exchange.
The US government is accelerating innovation in health IT through large-scale funding and certification programs (AI+ Healthcare Administratorโข). This initiative aims to modernize infrastructure using open standards and develop next-generation care models, providing participating companies with clinical validation access and expanded market opportunities.
Vorro offers comprehensive compliance management services to help healthcare organizations handle continuous regulatory changes and evolving interoperability standards (FHIR, HL7). This approach maintains system integration reliability while significantly reducing the burden on internal IT resources.
ClinikAPI offers a fully managed, HIPAA-compliant FHIR R4 data store built on enterprise cloud infrastructure. This allows users to focus on building clinical experiences without worrying about the complexity of schemas or referential integrity.
CMS proposed making FHIR a new HIPAA standard for prior authorization. The success of this regulation depends heavily on its adoption and implementation by major EHR vendors like Epic.
InterSystems has introduced an option to skip resource structural validation in v2026.2, aiming to improve the speed of FHIR payload ingestion. This feature is expected to significantly reduce time during large-scale data ingestion processes.
As the US healthcare industry races toward the January 1, 2027, interoperability deadline, focus remains on mere compliance. The true challenge lies in building a 'trusted scalable network' for data sharing, with CMS-Aligned Networks showing potential as the blueprint.
When healthcare organizations use generative AI for clinical data analysis and workflow automation, risks like ePHI leakage and hallucination exist. This article introduces a multi-layered AWS technical architecture that incorporates HIPAA compliance to address these risks.
Integrating AI agents into Electronic Health Records (EHR) requires more than just data connectivity (FHIR API). The article outlines six essential architectural layersโincluding identity, authorization, and audit trailsโthat must be considered for successful clinical deployment.
This article analyzes the administrative overhead and data interoperability challenges within the US healthcare industry. It emphasizes that successful AI implementation requires addressing fundamental workflow issues and technical constraints, such as FHIR compatibility, rather than merely selecting a model.
CMS underwent a major reorganization to establish the Office of Health Technology and Products (OHTP). This move effectively ends internal agency conflicts regarding standards, consolidating API-based data exchange and policy development under one command structure.
UNMIRI has published an open-source FHIR Genomics R4 schema for cross-vendor Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) data. Additionally, the company released research on a failure mode in how clinical AI tools retrieve genomic evidence, highlighting issues with standard similarity comparisons.
Centene has expanded its cloud-based Population-Health platform, HealtheIntent, to enhance care coordination for complex multi-morbid patients (Medicaid/Medicare). By integrating clinical and administrative data in near real-time, the platform addresses structural issues like information fragmentation and rising costs.
The CMS Health Tech Ecosystem and TEFCA are advancing healthcare data exchange through complementary approaches, contributing to improved interoperability in the medical field. Both initiatives aim for patient-centric data sharing and efficient care processes by standardizing FHIR APIs and electronic prescriptions.
The state of Vermont secured $195 million in funding for its Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP). This funding will enable the construction of a FHIR-native platform focused on mobile integrated health and specialty telehealth.
According to Black Book Research's survey, Health Gorilla achieved the highest rating for interoperability and FHIR/API in its 2026 'State of Payer Digital Technology.' This highlights that platforms which reduce data entropy and make data usable across clinical and administrative systems are highly valued.
UNMIRI LLC has launched a precision oncology software platform that converts next-generation sequencing reports into citation-grounded clinical data. This set of APIs normalizes multi-vendor data into FHIR R4 Genomics format, providing reliable decision support.
Brendan Keeler examined the data access patterns of athenahealth, an Electronic Health Record (EHR) system known for its openness. While the company is recognized for its developer-centric approach, it was pointed out that the system is not truly headless or fully decoupled, suggesting persistent gaps in data access.