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Early Bird Registration Ends Soon

Time is running out to take advantage of early bird registration discounts for an upcoming three-day online educational event that will offer practical insights on how to implement Health Level Seven's (HL7®) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) application program interfaces (APIs).

Early bird discounts end March 31 for the event, “Strategy to Execution: Better Prior Authorization by Integrating Operations, FHIR and CMS-0057.”

Two days of interactive content delivery and demonstrations will be followed by a collaborative Connectathon testing event on day three that will provide implementers and developers with the opportunity to test FHIR-based solutions and exchange data with other FHIR interfaces.

If you’re looking to fast-track your organization’s efforts to use HL7 FHIR APIs to automate workflow, maximize efficiency and meet federal requirements of the CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule (CMS-0057-F), then don’t miss this virtual, hands-on training and testing event.

March 26 Session Features Demonstration and Lessons Learned from Cognizant and Infor

What’s the most effective way to streamline the exchange of data among providers and payers for a wide variety of purposes? Find out at the next HL7 Da Vinci Project Community Roundtable: “Transforming Healthcare End-to-End Data Conversations.”

This free webinar, to be held at 4 p.m. ET on March 26, will show how two Da Vinci member organizations are working together to transform provider/payer data conversations by applying Health Level Seven's (HL7®) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) application programming interface (API) standard.

In addition to a demonstration, presenters will address the lessons learned so far in using the FHIR Implementation Guides for Coverage Requirements Discovery (CRD), Documentation Templates and Rules (DTR), Prior Authorization Support (PAS), Clinical Data Exchange (CDex), and Data Exchange for Quality Measures (DEQM), including Gaps in Care.  

The HIMSS25 Conference, to be held March 3-6 in Las Vegas, will offer numerous opportunities to learn more about the important interoperability work of Health Level Seven International’s Da Vinci Project.

Project members will describe how the HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, or FHIR, standard can be used to support and integrate value-based care data exchange across communities.

Thanks to participating Da Vinci members AWS, Availity, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Epic, Humana, 1UpHealth, Cognizant, healow and InterSystems, Da Vinci will host a kiosk and five 20-minute thought leadership sessions in the Interop and Smart Pavilion, located in Caesars Forum, Academy Ballroom. Da Vinci also will be presenting three sessions at the HL7 anchor space.

Plus, Da Vinci will be presenting two 60-minute general education sessions.

This year, the HIMSS Conference will be held in three venues. In addition to Caesars Forum, events will take place at the Venetian Convention and Expo Center and Wynn Las Vegas.

For a complete schedule of events featuring Da Vinci content, at HIMSS25, visit: https://confluence.hl7.org/spaces/DVP/pages/325452688/Da+Vinci+at+HIMSS25

Da Vinci’s Feb. 26 Community Roundtable and Feb. 27 Joint Education Session with FAST to provide implementation resources.

Two free online events coming up soon will provide practical insights on how to improve interoperability by leveraging Health Level Seven’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) standard for APIs.

A Community Roundtable, to be held at 4 p.m. ET on Feb. 26, will focus on “Da Vinci’s Trebuchet: Launching Your Interoperability Implementations.”

The HL7 Da Vinci Project is a private-sector initiative that’s leveraging FHIR to improve data sharing in value-based care (VBC) arrangements. The goal of Da Vinci’s Trebuchet effort is to accelerate FHIR adoption and scaling of FHIR APIs through pilot projects.

Attendees at this month’s Community Roundtable will receive information to equip them with the knowledge and resources needed to successfully launch an implementation journey.

Pilot leaders and a panel of payer and provider implementers will share their expertise. After a level-setting session that reviews the purpose and current state of Trebuchet pilots, presenters will describe what’s involved with piloting and how to determine your organization’s readiness.

Attendees will learn about key elements of finding or creating a pilot, including identifying other parties of the willing, the role of vendors in your pilot design, Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN) and Health Information Network (HIN) implications and how your current trading partners fit into your vision. The session will conclude with a panel of payers and providers who will share their piloting journey.

Register Today for the February Community Roundtable! 

To register and attend this free webinar, visit:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_T5IyY_NQQLybrIZdQ0zifw#/registration 

Second Event

The second event, to be held at 2 p.m. ET on Feb. 27, will be a joint session of FAST and Da Vinci focusing on alignment of Trebuchet and network exchange goals.

FAST stands for the FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST) Accelerator, which is working to identify ecosystem-wide barriers to deploying FHIR at scale, define solutions to address those barriers and develop infrastructural standards to support FHIR implementations. The desired outcome is a national API interoperability approach that enables consistent clinical data exchange using FHIR. 

The FAST Security Implementation Guide (IG) supports a multi-party trust framework within payer-payer and payer-provider networks. It supports implementing dynamic client registration in scalable exchange.

David Pyke, FAST technical director, will discuss the FAST IG with a focus on the implementer’s perspective, including:

• What to consider before and during implementation of the IG
• What is of primary importance as you begin and progress through implementation
• For payers, providers and vendors: What are the implications and experiences of the client, vendors and EHRs.

To attend, access the Zoom link on this page under the  Conference Call Schedule and Dial-ins section: https://confluence.hl7.org/display/DVP/Da+Vinci+Trebuchet+FHIR+Pilots   

Don’t miss these two opportunities to learn how to implement FHIR as a critical component of ramping up the exchange of clinical data to improve the quality of care.

Are you ready to go for 2025? 

Join the HL7 Da Vinci Project technical directors next week to learn the latest Da Vinci implementation guide developments. 

Ready to Go! 2025 HL7 Da Vinci Project Implementation Guide Progress, will be held online Jan. 22 at 4 p.m. ET.  As a participant, you will learn about Da Vinci’s use cases and the use case progress across the Da Vinci implementation guides. Da Vinci Project’s technical directors will provide an overview of all the use cases spanning clinical data exchange; coverage, transparency and burden reduction; quality and risk use cases; and foundational assets.  

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear an overview of each use case and learn about implementation guide functional enhancements and resources.  You will also learn the status and maturity of the guides to help inform your planning for your 2025 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) implementation staffing and allocations. 

One of the most efficient ways to exchange data among providers and payers for prior authorization and other purposes is by taking advantage of standard application program interfaces (APIs) and a central hub to avoid manual processes and support of point-to-point interfaces.

The HL7^® Da Vinci Project’s new Trebuchet pilot program, launched earlier this year, is enabling additional pioneers to test that approach.

Trebuchet was created when Da Vinci members Regence, MultiCare Connected Care, and Blue Cross Blue Shield Arkansas sought ways to pilot Da Vinci use cases on the emerging TEFCA framework. They contacted multiple Qualified Health Information Networks™, or QHINs™, to gauge their interest in joining the pilot. eHealth Exchange joined the effort to perform the QHIN functions and provided valuable project management support.

The team named the coalition “Trebuchet” to illustrate how the success of a third-century military catapult could inspire providers, payers, and a QHIN to accelerate trusted and scalable exchange. 

As efforts advanced and participants increased, Trebuchet asked Da Vinci to take over project management. Now a priority project adopted by Da Vinci, Trebuchet is proving how eHealth Exchange’s nationwide trust model and “Networked FHIR” architecture rapidly deploy Smart-on-FHIR Prior Authorization and Clinical Data Exchange (CDex) at scale

Looking for an update on the HL7 Da Vinci Project’s accomplishments this year and the outlook for 2025? Then don’t miss a special year-end online session at 4 p.m. ET on December 11.

This meeting, which combines Da Vinci’s Member Forum and Operating Committee meetings and the December Community Roundtable, will review this year’s programmatic accomplishments and set the stage for 2025.

A Da Vinci leadership panel will discuss 2024 highlights, sharing progress across policy, use cases and implementer support. The panel will address the successful Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®)) implementation outcomes listed in the HIPAA exception report as well as key partnerships and their interoperability journeys. (For more on the HIPAA exception report, see: Report on HIPAA Exception Project Describes Benefits of Using FHIR APIs).

Are you implementing Health Level Seven (HL7®) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) APIs and looking for testing resources? Find out about the Inferno Health API Testing Framework at this month’s October HL7 Da Vinci Project Community Roundtable.

A report from the HL7 Da Vinci Project describes how two pioneering organizations demonstrated the real-world practicality and value of applying standard application program interfaces (APIs) to streamline the prior authorization process.

Regence, a payer based in the Pacific Northwest, and MultiCare Health System, a provider based in Washington state, spent about a year testing and fine-tuning processes that leverage HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR^®) standard for APIs.

In addition, dozens of other organizations have tested FHIR APIs at more than 15 Connectathon testing events.

"Our response to interoperability isn’t just about managing data—it’s about building the future of healthcare through open standards." - Dan Vreeman, DPT, Chief Standards Development Officer, HL7 International

Last week at Civitas 2024 in Detroit, HL7 International/s Chief Standards Development Officer,Dan Vreeman, DPT, led an insightful panel session on how HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) is revolutionizing interoperability. As data sharing becomes increasingly critical, HL7 is at the forefront, driving collaboration with over 45 organizations and developing 35-45 new FHIR implementation guides annually! Dan was joined by leaders from the Da Vinci Project, FAST, Gravity Project, and Helios, to discuss their HL7 FHIR Accelerator projects, including objectives and progress made to date in advancing open data standards development and interoperability.

An Overview, Demo and Benefits of Da Vinci-related Test Kits on Wednesday, October 23

Are you implementing Health Level Seven (HL7®) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) APIs and looking for testing resources? Find out about the Inferno Health API Testing Framework at this month’s October HL7 Da Vinci Project Community Roundtable.

This month’s session, Exploring Inferno: An Overview, Demo and Benefits of Da Vinci-related Test Kits, is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 23, from 4 – 5:30 PM EDT and features presenters from the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ASTP) / Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and MITRE. Presenters will introduce the Inferno Framework and voluntary test kits, which may be used as testing tools to further advance implementation guide development and testing of industry implementations.