The Sequoia Project published guidance encouraging healthcare organizations to transition from manual patient consent processes to automated, computable consent systems. This aims to address fragmented consent management and mitigate information blocking risks in healthcare data sharing.
Saikrishna Kavali points out that current healthcare systems fail to address challenges in infectious disease control and chronic risk management because they treat individuals separately. He proposes a FHIR-based 'Family Health Record' (FHR) framework designed to manage the entire household as a single, actionable health unit.
NCPeH has released the FHIR resource profile specification for patient information (Practitioner Information Received from the EU) related to prescriptions within the European Union. This profile provides technical guidelines for cross-border healthcare data exchange.
In digital health, patient consent moves beyond static PDFs or checkboxes. Using the FHIR Consent Resource allows patient choices to become structured, machine-readable rules, enabling privacy-aware data sharing across hospitals, research platforms, and national health infrastructures.
HL7 is a family of interoperability standards used to exchange clinical and administrative data between multiple systems like hospitals and labs. Specifically, HL7 v2 is widely used for real-time in-hospital messaging, while FHIR is utilized for modern API integration.
According to OSBytes, healthcare systems are establishing structured 'human-in-the-loop' review processes and governance checkpoints before allowing AI-driven modifications to FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) data. This represents a critical governance approach for autonomous AI writes in regulated healthcare environments.
Cotiviti, a leader in enterprise healthcare software, announced that its Quality Intelligence solution achieved Digital HEDIS Certification from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) for Measurement Year (MY) 2025. This positions the company as a vendor fully supporting digital workflows while maintaining traditional HEDIS reporting capabilities.,details_en:
Data exchange is moving from a distant goal to practical application. Concrete progress in interoperability is evident through the release of USCDI+ by ONC and reports on FHIR adoption.
This material explains FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources), a standard for medical information exchange. It presents the role and application examples of this technology toward achieving the goal of 'one health' in Japan.
Pegasus One Health launched the SONG framework on July 7, 2026, designed to help healthcare organizations determine if AI agents can scale from pilot testing to full production. The framework evaluates factors beyond model accuracy, such as data source availability and FHIR readiness.
Pontegra Software Technologies offers an 'Integrated Care Pathway' pilot program designed for managing care plans related to specific diseases. This service aims to establish an operational, shared care plan workflow based on real-world clinical guidelines within 4–6 weeks.
Studyfyr provides a platform to govern and manage clinical research execution environments based on standards like FHIR and OMOP. This ensures reproducible data pipelines, managed audit trails, and secure publication of results.
This article argues that FHIR's technical capabilities alone cannot fundamentally solve the deep-seated problem of patient identification (ID) in healthcare. As data exchange advances, record fragmentation and mismatch undermine trust, necessitating governance and data quality management beyond mere API implementation.
Intersystems Japan will exhibit at the International Modern Hospital Show 2026, focusing on the theme 'AI starts with data strategy. — How medical data infrastructure determines the success of AI utilization.' They will introduce data infrastructure technologies supporting generative AI and the latest healthcare DX solutions.
Japan's healthcare industry is undergoing a major transformation toward 'Medical DX.' The international standard 'HL7 FHIR' and the government-promoted 'Standardized EHR' are crucial. These standards aim to solve traditional vendor lock-in issues by enabling seamless, nationwide data sharing.
Researchers conducted a large-scale internet scan of major protocols like HL7 and FHIR used in healthcare. They found 2,841 vulnerable services due to flaws such as lack of authentication, revealing that many systems operate without proper encryption.
Denmark's eHealth Infrastructure has published the mapping specifications for the 'ehealth-provider-affiliation' extension, which is based on FHIR. This information aims to enhance the structured representation and interoperability of provider affiliation data in healthcare data exchange.