This brief reports on Thermo Fisher's expanded real-world data (RWD) access through a partnership with HealthVerity, the progress of FHIR standard-based eSource implementation, and regulatory challenges faced by Replimune regarding its oncolytic immunotherapy.
The Taiwan Ministry of Health (MOH) plans to complete the format interoperability of medical records across all university hospitals this year. Utilizing the SMART on FHIR standard architecture, medical applications will become usable across different institutions, with phased rollout planned for other levels of healthcare facilities starting in the coming years.
Following a successful transition in 2025, Health-Comm France aims to solidify its position in the healthcare market by focusing on interoperability and data sovereignty within hospital information systems (SIH). The company plans to play a crucial role in the evolution and integration of French e-health systems using open standards like FHIR.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) selected 50 excellent SMART on FHIR applications from 115 submissions. This aims to promote the use of diverse medical apps, including AI and clinical support, by building a proprietary market called 'THAS.'
AWS HealthLake offers the `$bulk-member-match` operation, compliant with FHIR standards, enabling large-scale member matching. This feature allows healthcare organizations to efficiently cross-reference unique identifiers for hundreds of members across multiple systems using demographic and insurance information.
Kaohsiung Medical University's AI Institute introduced a system that uses AI to perform initial diagnoses at an unprecedented speed compared to traditional methods, automatically prioritizing high-risk cases. This demonstrates how medical AI is shifting its focus toward early prevention by achieving integrated evaluation of diverse data (images, pathology, genetics).
The Ministry of Health and Welfare reported at the 'Taiwan 50 Excellent SMART App Awards' that Taiwan is advancing digital healthcare by utilizing the international standard, FHIR. This effort aims to break free from traditional closed hospital information systems, establishing a data economy for national health maintenance.
Health Samurai hosted an offline FHIR meetup at BIH@Charitรฉ in Berlin during DMEA 2026. Engineers and architects gathered to discuss practical topics, including building FHIR pipelines, migration strategies from HL7 v2 to FHIR, and SQL on FHIR.
This service provides a single API to search FHIR endpoints from all ONC-certified EHR vendors. This allows developers to bypass the need to navigate individual vendor portals and registries, enabling faster system integration.
CMS has proposed new rules requiring Medicaid and ACA plans to speed up prior authorization (PA) reviews, including those related to drugs. The proposal mandates responses within 24 hours for urgent requests and 72 hours for standard ones, while also enforcing public disclosure of denial reasons and appeal outcomes.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed a rule mandating payers to implement electronic prior authorization for drugs and shorten the decision timeframe. This expands requirements from non-drug items to cover pharmaceuticals.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) aims to complete an initiative integrating hospitals' electronic health record (EHR) systems by the end of the year. This effort is expected to facilitate data sharing when patients are referred to different healthcare facilities, thereby enhancing diagnostic efficiency and quality.
Burundian authorities held a national technical workshop aiming to build an interoperable health information system by integrating the country's fragmented health data platforms. This initiative is expected to improve data quality and reduce the workload on healthcare workers.
This article addresses the challenge that building a FHIR API typically takes four to six months. It explains how making appropriate architectural decisions early can drastically reduce this timeline, emphasizing minimum resource set definition and managed server selection.
A service from EasyPA, Inc converts healthcare messages in the HL7v2 format into FHIR R4 JSON bundles in real-time. This allows organizations to modernize interoperability workflows without needing complex integration engines.
gematik released the ePA Medication Service (Version 1.1.5), providing an implementation guide and resource profile specifically for medication's PZN ingredient. This offers a standardized data structure for electronic pharmaceutical information exchange.
The Ministry of Health (MOH) held the first 'Taiwan 50 Excellent SMART App Awards' and an international forum, honoring 50 excellent smart healthcare applications. This effort aims to build a unified platform usable across all medical institutions nationwide, thereby improving electronic health record interoperability.