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Unlocking the Power of PDex: How Payers Are Driving Transparency, Value-Based Care, and Data Exchange

May 20, 2025 1:37:55 PM / by Leslie Amorós posted in FHIR, Da Vinci, value based care, FHIR Accelerator, PDex

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Community Roundtable Featuring Payer Data Exchange Implementation Guide on May 28 at 4 pm

If you're looking for a real-world take on how the healthcare industry is putting the HL7 Da Vinci Project’s Payer Data Exchange (PDex) Implementation Guide into action, you won’t want to miss this event! The 90-minute virtual community roundtable will feature how organizations are using FHIR-based APIs to improve transparency and value-based care.

How Organizations Are Using PDex in Production Today

After a brief update on the PDex Implementation Guide from Da Vinci’s technical director, attendees will hear about implementation considerations and first-hand implementer accounts from those actively applying PDex to solve real-world data exchange challenges:

  • Blue Cross Blue Shield Association + InterSystems will discuss the immense potential of payer-to-payer APIs to increase patient transparency and improve value-based care in light of the high levels of churn of the impacted population, resulting in care gaps and a need to provide patients with longitudinal records of care. Presenters will highlight the relevant Implementation Guides and the workflow issues inherent in the process that are being worked on. 

  • Availity, Healow Insights, and Humana will explore their experience with payer-to-payer data sharing using PDex—including workflow impacts, scaling considerations, and member-centered outcomes. Availity and Humana will share its observations and lessons learned along their payer-to-payer implementation journey through internal development, coordinating with their cohort of payers, and participating in Connectathons. Then Healow will highlight its experiences from two years in PDex production. 
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Upcoming Training and Testing Event Features Two Technical Tracks

Apr 16, 2025 2:59:33 PM / by Howard Anderson posted in FHIR, CMS, Da Vinci, prior authorization, payer data exchange, FHIR Accelerator, PDex, burden reduction, FHIR API, CMS-0057-F

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Are you a member of a technical team that’s beginning its journey toward implementing HL7's Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) application program interfaces (APIs)? Then don’t miss an upcoming three-day online educational event offering two technical tracks tailored to your needs. 

 

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

 

Organizations that want to fast-track implementing HL7 FHIR APIs to automate workflow, maximize efficiency and meet federal requirements of the CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule (CMS-0057-F) should encourage their technical teams attend this online event. 

 

“We designed two tracks for technical team members at provider and payer organizations, as well as technology vendors, who are looking for a crash course on making the most of FHIR,” says Viet Nguyen, M.D., Technical Director of the HL7 Da Vinci Project. (Da Vinci has developed implementation guides for putting FHIR to use in supporting value-based medicine.) 

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The Future of Clinical Trial Matching: Addressing Two Sides of the Same Coin – Perspectives from the CodeX and Vulcan HL7® FHIR® Accelerators – Part 2

Apr 11, 2025 2:10:04 PM / by Vulcan and CodeX FHIR Accelerators posted in FHIR, interoperability, Connectathon, blue button, FHIR Accelerator, Vulcan, CodeX, mCODE, UDP, Common Protocol Template, Digital Data Flow

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Clinical Trial Matching...Room for Improvement 

Clinical trials are essential to the advancement of patient care. The outcomes of a trial directly enable the future development of new treatment options for patients. Participants also benefit during the trial – they are provided access to potential treatments that may not be otherwise available to them – sometimes improving their overall prognosis.

Trial sponsors (the party responsible for the clinical trial) make significant investments, including procurement of products and services supporting the clinical trial workflow. According to the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD), the mean direct cost to conduct a clinical trial per day is approximately $40,000 for Phase II and Phase III trials, and delays to launching a product can cost $800,000 per day.

With a very high percentage of trials delayed due to enrollment, there is much work to do to ensure clinical trials are sustainable and new therapies reach patients faster. Efficiencies gained in clinical trial matching benefit patients and their caregivers, sponsors and service providers.

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For a patient to be matched with the right trial, that patient’s medical history is compared with multiple trials’ criteria.   In concept, this is a simple process, but more information is often needed than is available in the patient’s record (in Part 1 we tell the story of Dr. Smith’s inability to easily obtain her patient’s medication history from his previous health care provider.) If, after a first evaluation, a patient isn’t disqualified, they must often undergo additional screening by their care team or more involved procedures required by the protocol sponsor to fully determine eligibility.

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The Future of Clinical Trial Matching: Addressing Two Sides of the Same Coin – Perspectives from the CodeX and Vulcan HL7® FHIR® Accelerators – Part 1 

Apr 7, 2025 11:32:15 AM / by Vulcan and CodeX FHIR Accelerators posted in FHIR, interoperability, Connectathon, blue button, FHIR Accelerator, Vulcan, CodeX, mCODE, UDP

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Introduction

Scenario: Dr. Smith’s patient, Michael, has been diagnosed with colon cancer and is seeking to participate in a clinical trial that offers hope of a new treatment for his medical condition.  Dr. Smith considers the trials she is familiar with at her hospital and manually reviews Michael’s medical history against the trial criteria – determining that he is not a match.  This process is laborious and sometimes error prone – especially when required data is not fully accessible. In Michael’s case, Dr. Smith could not consider his full medical history as he’d recently moved to the area. Together, these challenges mean that neither Michael nor Dr. Smith are aware that there’s a potential trial at another hospital across town. As a patient, Michael is able to conduct a search on his own, however this entails a highly manual process, clinical trial data from various tools is not always up-to-date and can quickly become overwhelming. Given the complexities of this process, Michael is eventually ‘matched’, but it is too late the desired trial has closed enrollment.   

  Questions to Address:

  • Two separate-but-related teams within one of the world’s leading health data standards organizations are independently addressing aspects of this complicated puzzle.  Through more standardized patient medical records and machine-readable, digital clinical trial protocols, we can make progress toward a future state where trial matching is more accurate and seamless. You can be part of the journey!  
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Da Vinci Event Offers Hands-On Training and Testing; Business Track Highlights Strategic Opportunities of Automation with FHIR

Mar 25, 2025 2:50:03 PM / by Howard Anderson posted in FHIR, CMS, Da Vinci, prior authorization, payer data exchange, FHIR Accelerator, PDex, burden reduction, FHIR API

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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.

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Leveraging our 2024 Accomplishments to Advance Standards in 2025: Highlights from the Gravity Project Year-End Update

Mar 24, 2025 4:57:03 PM / by Leslie Amorós posted in interoperability, health IT, FHIR Accelerator, USCDI, Gravity, Social Determinants of Health, SDOH

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Thanks to the dedicated efforts of Gravity Project’s community members, volunteers, and staff, we made significant progress in advancing standards for Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) in 2024 that will shape the future of health data sharing.

Key Achievements

Gravity focuses on developing consensus-based standards that enhance data interoperability for SDOH. Our terminology, technical, and implementation workstreams all made notable progress in 2024 that we can leverage this year.  We provided valuable resources and guidance to help implementers adopt Gravity terminology effectively.

One of our standout initiatives was a six-week discovery project in February 2024, where over 20 cross-sector stakeholders collaborated to explore social care payment and reporting standards. This effort not only resulted in a comprehensive report but also fostered a deeper understanding of the landscape surrounding social care.

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March HL7 Da Vinci Project Community Roundtable Highlights Real World Transformation of Provider/Payer Data Conversations

Mar 21, 2025 2:13:00 PM / by Howard Anderson posted in FHIR, Da Vinci, DEQM, prior authorization, FHIR Accelerator, CDex, FHIR API, CRD, DTR

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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.  

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Join Vulcan on March 26 for Initial Forum on The Utilizing the Digital Protocol Project

Mar 18, 2025 12:01:23 PM / by Vulcan Project Management Office posted in FHIR, interoperability, FHIR Accelerator, Vulcan, UDP

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Join the Vulcan FHIR® Accelerator on March 26 as we kick off a monthly forum inviting open dialogue on the development of a HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) implementation guide (IG) for the exchange of a digital clinical trial protocol. Input across the broader HL7 community will help ensure a more robust and widely applicable IG.

About

The Utilizing the Digital Protocol (UDP) project focuses on developing a FHIR IG for exchange of protocols aligned to ICH M11 (Clinical electronic Structured Harmonized Protocols). UDP is an umbrella project to accelerate exchange of ICH M11 compliant protocols through collaboration and integration of work products across Vulcan, CDISC and TransCelerate.     

Vulcan’s UDP team will:

  • Provide regular project updates, offering a touchpoint for stakeholders who want to stay informed.
  • Create a platform for discussion, allowing community members to raise questions, share insights, and engage more directly.
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Announcing the New International Patient Access (IPA) Website!

Mar 11, 2025 4:19:15 PM / by Brett Marquard posted in FHIR, Argonaut Project, FHIR Accelerator, FHIR Community, International Patient Access, IPA

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HL7, in collaboration with the Argonaut Project, is excited to announce the launch of a new website dedicated to the International Patient Access (IPA) standard:ipa.hl7.org. This site is designed to provide a central resource for healthcare organizations, policymakers and patients to understand, implement and support patient-controlled access to health data using the HL7® FHIR® standard.

A Milestone for Global Interoperability

IPA is a global standard aimed at empowering patients with access to their health records across different systems and countries. By defining a minimal yet meaningful set of FHIR-based profiles, IPA ensures that applications can seamlessly retrieve patient data regardless of geographic or system-specific differences.

The new website serves as a hub for information about IPA adoption, implementation guidance and ongoing development efforts. It provides insights into how healthcare systems worldwide can enable secure, authorized access to patient records through standardized APIs, reducing barriers to interoperability.

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HL7 Da Vinci Project Will Have Major Presence at HIMSS25 Conference in Las Vegas

Mar 3, 2025 12:11:49 PM / by Howard Anderson posted in FHIR, HIMSS, Da Vinci, value based care, FHIR Accelerator, FHIR API

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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

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