The 'Boston FHIR' group, gathering healthcare professionals and developers in Boston, is a community focused on defining and creating the future of health technology centered around HL7 FHIR. They have consistently shared the latest industry trends through large-scale events like SMART and Da Vinci.
MHK offers an interoperability platform built on FHIR-native APIs to meet CMS regulatory requirements. This standardizes the prior authorization process between providers and payers, enabling efficient and auditable data exchange.
In the US healthcare system, data fragmentation due to silos is causing incomplete patient records. Regulatory bodies have mandated interoperability standards like HL7 and FHIR. These two standards are crucial for supporting different aspects of EHR functionality—legacy transactional processing and modern real-time access—making a hybrid approach essential.
Drummond Group has launched the 'ONC Compliance Learning Series,' a three-month educational program aimed at helping health IT developers gain comprehensive understanding of health IT testing and certification processes.
This article explains how to use Azure Health Data Services to achieve custom clinical data searching beyond standard FHIR resource capabilities. It details the procedure for setting up search parameters based on custom extensions or specific data patterns.
Form.io, an enterprise platform, announced that TESCHGlobal has developed 'SpecKit.' This tool simplifies the process of creating test data for FHIR-based systems, helping address complex industry standards.
Open Health Hub has launched publicly accessible, end-to-end encrypted FHIR APIs. This allows data from questionnaires and medical devices to be automatically integrated into patient records, enabling healthcare institutions and system integrators to independently implement eHealth solutions within their digital infrastructure.
This article provides technical steps for setting up an environment to run HAPI FHIR. Specifically, it details how to install and perform initial setup of PostgreSQL 14 as a database on an Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS system.
The WHO's smart project released a FHIR ValueSet specification defining system actors related to the Hajj pilgrimage. This aims to standardize the identification of participants (actors) in healthcare information exchange.
Health Informatics Analyst Priyanka Bodagala highlights the critical need for real-time decision support in cancer care, emphasizing that standardized data like EHRs and FHIR must provide a 'patient-level view' usable at the point of care, rather than just generating reports.
This article provides a comprehensive technical guide covering various Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) resources. It details the structure and operational methods required for handling specific clinical data, such as patient information and medical records.
Form.io has partnered with TESCHGlobal to enhance the generation of test data for healthcare interoperability. This collaboration aims to simplify testing processes in regulated industries by combining specialized domain knowledge with robust platform infrastructure.
This article details how Azure Health Bot can integrate with Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems via FHIR APIs to provide personalized health information, such as appointment schedules and medication lists. This significantly improves the accessibility of medical information through chatbots.
WHO published the ICVP (v0.3.0), based on FHIR R4, defining non-functional requirements for digital systems. These include general attributes related to system availability and usability, such as offline capability and multiple language settings.
Developed by HL7, FHIR standardizes fragmented healthcare data using a resource-based structure and RESTful APIs. This enables real-time sharing and analysis of data by leveraging global standards like SNOMED CT and LOINC.
An organization has released multiple technical documents (in hwp format) related to the FHIR system. These files provide information regarding specific implementations and data structures.
Open Health Hub enables structured, standards-based data exchange between itself and the HiX system while preserving existing clinical workflows. Using FHIR standards, this integration facilitates advanced data connectivity—such as digital intake or regional care—without adding complexity to the core EHR.
Firely and Open Health Hub announced a partnership, providing healthcare IT teams and developers with a solution to quickly and easily visualize and analyze FHIR data within existing systems. This allows users to go from raw data to dashboard visualization in minutes.
MedCom has published an 'Acknowledgement TestScript' based on FHIR R4. This script is designed to validate the fatal error handling process when duplicate acknowledgements occur upon message receipt.
This platform provides a solution that supports hybrid models, integrating care between clinics and homes. It offers a unified system for collecting and exchanging structured patient data using standards like FHIR and IHE.