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January FHIR Connectathon Touted a Success: Register Now for May

[fa icon="calendar'] Apr 12, 2022 4:51:57 PM / by Diana Manos posted in FHIR, Payers, Da Vinci, FHIR Accelerator, FHIR Connectathon, FHIR Community

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Da Vinci is creating the foundation to solve large scale industry problems.

The HL7 January FHIR Connectathon  was a success, with all examples from the implementation guides (IGs) tested, including over 20 test cases.

The HL7 Da Vinci Project, through its efforts that include Connectathons, “continues to focus on solving real-world data exchange challenges between payers and providers,” said Vanessa Candelora, Da Vinci’s project manager and senior consultant with Point-of-Care Partners, at the Jan. 26 Da Vinci Community Roundtable. “Da Vinci is creating the foundation to solve large scale industry problems, including, risk and quality data sharing and workflow; unlocking data or freeing data needed for patient costs; and reducing provider burden.”

Candelora called HL7 Connectathons, “a fundamentally human-powered endeavor,” praising Da Vinci as “a really great community,” with a multi-stakeholder membership that includes providers, payers, vendors, industry partners and EHRs. “We continue to grow and learn from each other in this party of the willing.”

Candelora added that founders of Da Vinci are pleased with the amount of work the group has accomplished in such a short time. “They really couldn't have envisioned the impact and the progress that this project has made,” she said.

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Upcoming Roundtable Provides Essential Implementation Guide Primer

[fa icon="calendar'] Mar 25, 2022 11:36:40 AM / by Leslie Amorós posted in FHIR, Payers, Da Vinci, value based care, FHIR Accelerator

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The Da Vinci Project’s March Community Roundtable to be held March 30 from 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. ET

Invite your product and technical teams to register for March's HL7 Da Vinci Project Community Roundtable Ready, Set, Test: Prepare Now to Test Da Vinci Implementation Guides.

This essential primer will delve into the IGs and help you identify what you want to test, who needs to be involved, and the tools involved in the testing process so that you are prepared for HL7 and CMS Connectathons.

This session will provide brief updates on Implementation Guides (IGs) and use cases as well as resources to aid testing and Connectathon preparation efforts.

With this basic knowledge you can create your own roadmap to readiness while helping improve industry interoperability.

Speakers:
  • Vanessa Candelora, HL7 Da Vinci Project Manager, and Senior Consultant, Point-of-Care-Partners
  • Robert Dieterle, Da Vinci Sr. Advisor and Chief Executive Officer, EnableCare, LLC
  • Yan Heras, HL7 Da Vinci Project Lead and Technical Advisor, and Principal Informaticist, Optimum eHealth
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HL7 Da Vinci Going Strong at HIMSS22 With Lots to Offer

[fa icon="calendar'] Mar 15, 2022 11:15:34 AM / by Diana Manos posted in FHIR, HIMSS, Payers, Da Vinci, value based care, FHIR Accelerator

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Sessions Begin Today at HIMSS22

They say it takes a village to raise a child, but did you know it also takes a village to pursue interoperability? The HL7 Da Vinci Village is at HIMSS22 in Orlando this week, March 14-18. Also featured at the conference will be approximately 20 Da Vinci member organizations, presenting in 60-minute general education sessions and 20-minute Spotlight Theater and Innovation Live sessions—all aimed at helping to solve interoperability challenges.

Kiosk Village

HL7 Da Vinci Project Kiosk Village will be located in the Interoperability Showcase, Hall E Booth, #8240 at Kiosks 9 -16. Stop by to learn more about The Da Vinci Project’s efforts and how you can access resources.

Marketplace Kiosks at the HL7 Da Vinci Village include:

  • Kiosk 12 & 13: HL7 Da Vinci Project
  • Kiosk 9: healow Insights
  • Kiosk 10: Cognizant
  • Kiosk 11: InterSystems Corporation
  • Kiosk 14: Anthem, Inc.
  • Kiosk 15: Edifecs
  • Kiosk 16: Optum

Member Booth HL7 Da Vinci Office Hours

Learn more by stopping by member booths when HL7 Da Vinci Project PMO staff are on hand to answer questions. They include:

  • Change Healthcare, Booth # 1531, Wednesday, March 16, 10:30 – 11:15 a.m.                   
  • Edifecs, Booth # 5171, Wednesday, March 16, 4 – 4:30 p.m.    
  • MCG, Booth # 8185, March 15, 3:30 – 4 p.m.
  • Smile CDR Inc., Booth #3901, March 15, 4:15 – 4:35 p.m.
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Da Vinci to Feature the Role of EHRs in Advancing Interoperability at February Community Roundtable

[fa icon="calendar'] Feb 21, 2022 4:12:34 PM / by Diana Manos posted in FHIR, Payers, Da Vinci, value based care, FHIR Accelerator

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Executives From Allscripts, healow Insights Will Share Their Latest Efforts Using FHIR Guidelines

The Da Vinci Project’s February Community Roundtable to be held Feb. 23 from 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. ET

In this month’s Community Roundtable, the HL7 Da Vinci Project is exploring how EHRs are key to interoperability success with a discussion on electronic health record (EHR) vendors featuring Allscripts and healow Insights

The session will showcase how the role of HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR®) and the Da Vinci implementation guides are impacting their product roadmaps and related integration efforts to improve workflow, maximize efficiencies and improve patient care. Guest speakers will include:

  • Jeff Danford, Sr. Principal Software Engineer, Allscripts
  • Seth Paradis, Sales and Business Development Manager, Payer Engagement Division, healow Insights
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Jump Start Your 2022 Implementation Efforts With Da Vinci’s January Community Roundtable

[fa icon="calendar'] Jan 25, 2022 3:54:20 PM / by Diana Manos posted in FHIR, Payers, Da Vinci, value based care, FHIR Accelerator

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The Da Vinci Project’s January Community Roundtable to be held Jan. 26 from 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. ET

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HL7 Da Vinci Project's Year-End Joint Community Roundtable and Member Forum Will Highlight 2021 Achievements and Plans for the New Year

[fa icon="calendar'] Dec 6, 2021 1:59:21 PM / by Diana Manos posted in FHIR, Payers, Da Vinci, value based care, FHIR Accelerator

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The Da Vinci Project’s Year-End Meeting to Be Held December 8, 2021

The HL7 Da Vinci Project will hold a combined virtual Community Roundtable and Member Forum on December 8 titled "Are You  Ready for 2022? Hear Progress and Plans, Available Testing tools and Implementation Perspectives." During this meeting,  Da Vinci’s program management office will share insights on the year’s achievements, as well as the latest on strategic planning. They will top it off with a synopsis of Da Vinci’s priorities for 2022.

The agenda includes:

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HL7 Da Vinci Project October Community Roundtable to Highlight Clinical Data Exchange

[fa icon="calendar'] Oct 21, 2021 4:28:36 PM / by Diana Manos posted in FHIR, Payers, Da Vinci, value based care, FHIR Accelerator, CDex, clinical data exchange

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The Da Vinci Project’s October Community Roundtable, to be held Oct. 27 from 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. EDT, will feature Clinical Data Exchange (CDex)

This “Swiss army knife” of implementation guides (IGs) is responsible for identifying, documenting and constraining specific patterns of exchange so that providers and payers can reliably share patient information and coordinate care.

The scope of the CDex encompasses defining combinations of exchange methods with specific payloads, search criteria, conformance, provenance, and other relevant requirements, to support specific exchanges of clinical information between providers and and/or payers. CDex is also responsible for aiding in risk adjustment and quality reporting--and it helps payers to identify whether a requested service is necessary and appropriate.

The roundtable, titled, “Harnessing Clinical Data Exchange (CDex) to Improve Performance within Value-Based Care,” will give a current snapshot of the functionality, benefits and capabilities of CDex, helping providers to share the clinical data they have generated with payers and other industry partners.

At the roundtable, members of the Providence team will share their strategy for using CDex to support payer value-based care arrangements focusing on their initial target to achieve supplemental data exchange.

Presenters will include:

  • Viet Nguyen, MD, Technical Director, HL7 Da Vinci Project, and Clinical Informaticist, Stratametrics, LLC
  • Semira Singh, Product Manager, Population Health Informatics, Providence
  • Michael Westover, Vice President, Population Health Informatics, Providence

Come to the roundtable and learn how HL7 is making progress on CDex, with its eye on what remains to be conquered to provide the fully maximized data exchange needed to support value-based care. The good news is, HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR®) is helping to drive interoperability forward, and Da Vinci is poised to accelerate that data exchange in such a way that it will greatly reduce the burden between providers and payers.

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HL7 Da Vinci Project Roundtable Offers Update on Emerging IGs and a Demo of Prior Authorization

[fa icon="calendar'] Sep 16, 2021 3:09:50 PM / by Fred Bazzoli posted in FHIR, Payers, Da Vinci, value based care, prior authorization, FHIR Accelerator, patient cost transparency, burden reduction, Risk Adjustment

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Da Vinci Project's Monthly Meeting to Describe Progress on Price Cost Transparency and Risk Adjustment Initiatives on Wednesday Event, 9/22 at 4:00 pm ET

Important updates on two implementation guide initiatives and a demo of how standards could support prior authorization burden reduction are on the agenda for the next Community Roundtable of the Da Vinci Project.

The roundtable will begin with an update from the project management office of the Da Vinci Project, which will feature updates on the status of the Price Cost Transparency and Risk Adjustment Implementation Guides (IGs). These efforts to use HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR®) are more complex than previous initiatives. Both efforts anticipate challenges that the industry will face to make healthcare costs more transparent and to accurately reflect patients’ comprehensive conditions and risks related to reimbursement for coverage.

After the update, the prior authorization demonstration will show how FHIR IGs can be used to reduce administrative challenge of anticipating prior authorization documentation requirements, a nagging concern within the industry.

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HL7 Da Vinci Project Roundtable to Discuss Progress on Efforts to Use FHIR at Scale

[fa icon="calendar'] Aug 24, 2021 2:43:55 PM / by Fred Bazzoli posted in FHIR, Payers, Da Vinci, value based care, ONC, payer data exchange, FHIR Accelerator, PDex, ONC FAST

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Recent Initiatives of the ONC’s FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST) and Update on Payer-to-Payer Mandate are Key Topics for Wednesday Event, 8/25 at 4:00 pm ET

The success of the HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR®) standard is becoming increasingly evident.

Successful case studies are emerging. For example, a recently published HL7 case study documents how MultiCare Connected Care and Regence are recognizing significant cost savings by using a FHIR implementation guide standard to definitively ascertain that medication reconciliation has been completed. This case study can be found at https://www.hl7.org/participate/case-studies/index.cfm .

But these isolated successes beg the question – can FHIR be used more broadly, and implemented more widely across the country, handling a multiplicity of interactions across dozens of healthcare organizations simultaneously?

That is the task given to the ONC’s FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST), which is seeking to determine solutions and opportunities to influence emerging solutions.

Progress by the ONC FAST effort is of prime importance to the dissemination of FHIR solutions to solve information exchange challenges in healthcare. The panel’s progress over the past year will be one of the topics of the Da Vinci Project’s monthly Community Roundtable event, to be held from 4 to 5:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, August 25.

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Payer-to-Payer Data Exchange Highlight of HL7 Da Vinci Community Roundtable

[fa icon="calendar'] Jul 23, 2021 9:22:40 AM / by Fred Bazzoli posted in FHIR, Payers, Da Vinci, value based care, payer data exchange, FHIR Accelerator, PDex

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HL7 Da Vinci Roundtable  on July 28 from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. ET to Feature Payer-to-Payer Data Exchange

Join the Da Vinci Project next Wednesday at its July Community Roundtable titled "Payer-to-Payer Data Exchange: Rising to the Opportunities and the Challenges." The session will focus on the use of HL7's 's Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) for payer-to-payer data exchange, highlighting the Payer Data Exchange (PDex) use case.

Presenters for the session include:

  • Michael Gould, business lead - interoperability at Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
  • Patrick Murta, chief interoperability architect & solutions architecture fellow, Humana
  • Heather Kennedy Tanner, director of enterprise architecture, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
The roundtable will feature a current snapshot of Da Vinci's efforts to create a nationwide interoperable approach among payers using PDex-based data exchange. Discover the dynamics you'll encounter in achieving payer-to-payer exchange compliance such as consent and endpoint discovery. You will gain a foundational understanding of the regulatory requirements, learn about technical and business challenges and benefits from real-world implementers, and gain insight into how the industry is working together. 
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