This article details practical mapping techniques for translating legacy healthcare data into FHIR resources. It emphasizes that successful data model design requires structural, semantic, and operational considerations beyond simple field-to-field transformation.
With support from the CDC Foundation, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is modernizing its public health data flow. This effort aims to collect and analyze lab reports in real-time, improving outbreak tracking and decision-making.
This article explains the impact of required FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) compliance by 2026 on healthcare practices. Due to regulations like the Cures Act and CMS mandates, it highlights the necessity of bridging interoperability gaps in patient data access, care coordination, and prior authorization workflows.
Dahua Medical and Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) signed a strategic cross-domain cooperation platform agreement in the biomedical field. The two parties are focusing on three pillars—medical data standardization, AI clinical decision support, and home healthcare—to advance smart healthcare and home care commercialization through field validation.
Da Tong Medical Care (a subsidiary of Da Tong, 2371) partnered with the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) to establish a cross-domain cooperation platform for smart healthcare and home care. This aims to address the needs of an aging society.
Mandated by CMS regulations, health plans must digitize medical policies and implement FHIR APIs. However, the article argues that mere digitization is insufficient; policy must be reconstructed as 'executable logic' to achieve automated prior authorization decisions.
A FHIR server, 'FRUCtoS,' supporting Japan-specific profiles, is provided and being implemented in medical institutions through two versions: single-tenancy and multi-tenancy. The product aims to promote the utilization of Japanese medical information, realizing a world where it can be easily accessed.
A security advisory concerning FHIR has identified an XXE (External Entity) vulnerability within the Ucum-java library, found during XML parsing. This flaw was published on December 13, 2024, with a CVSS score of 8.6 (High).
This article explains 'HL7 FHIR,' an international standard for safely exchanging patient information between medical institutions. FHIR acts as a common language allowing different vendor systems to communicate, positioning it as the core technology for both electronic medical record sharing services and standardized EHRs.
This document details the resource definition for 'Organization' based on HL7 FHIR standards. It outlines how basic data regarding healthcare facilities and related groups, such as corporate identifiers and locations, can be structured and exchanged.
Elation explains that its EMR system's API adheres to the HL7 FHIR R4 specification, meeting the requirements for the ONC Certified 'Standardized API for Patient and Population Services'. The guide provides information for partners and customers (trusted developers) integrating the API into their workflows, detailing steps from sandbox testing to production use.
This document details the technical specifications for exchanging 'clinical notes,' which are crucial for communicating a patient's current status. It defines how eight common clinical note types and three diagnostic report categories must be handled based on the HL7 FHIR standard.
This article explains how clinical laboratory results should be handled as digital reports using FHIR. By utilizing the DiagnosticReport resource, it standardizes comprehensive information—including not just numerical values but also text, images, and codes.
Major healthcare payers have committed to standardizing and electrifying the prior authorization process for medical services. This initiative aims to accelerate patient access to care while significantly reducing administrative burdens on providers.
TPIsoftware won the 'Taiwan SMART 50 Award' for developing an artificial intelligence medical application based on FHIR. This award is part of a national initiative promoting smart healthcare applications and electronic health data interoperability in Taiwan.
TPIsoftware won the Taiwan SMART 50 Award for developing a medical AI application based on the FHIR standard. This achievement promotes secure and real-time data sharing across hospitals, contributing to improved data interoperability in Taiwan's healthcare sector.
Healthcare organizations face challenges due to inconsistent terminology used for diagnoses and tests. A FHIR Terminology Server addresses this interoperability hurdle by providing standardized vocabularies like SNOMED CT and LOINC through a single API.
The Finnish Health Data Hackathon focused on standardizing FHIR-based care plans and computable guidelines (CPG). Key discussions covered international challenges and technical approaches, such as utilizing CRMI for knowledge sharing and modeling ValueSets for concept definition.
The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), driven by the Indian government, has established a national digital health infrastructure. It enables secure health data exchange based on patient consent, requiring healthcare facilities to integrate using standards like FHIR R4.