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[fa icon="calendar'] Oct 4, 2018 1:38:03 PM / by Andrea Ribick posted in HL7
New to Confluence? We've got you covered.
[fa icon="calendar'] Oct 3, 2018 11:58:42 AM / by Wayne Kubick posted in HL7, HL7 community, health IT, news
You may have noticed that the HL7 website has a new look and feel.
The newly launched public homepage is one component of a broader website redesign project with an overall focus to enhance the most widely used and frequently visited sections of the HL7.org.
We hope this redesign will:
[fa icon="calendar'] Sep 25, 2018 1:53:32 PM / by Wayne Kubick posted in FHIR, HL7, interoperability, IHE, Gemini, Sync4science, International Patient Summary
Achieving healthcare interoperability at any level, by definition, requires at least two parties working together. Achieving it on a global scale requires a shared dedication of the many to the common good. Consider the vision statements of two organizations:
[fa icon="calendar'] Sep 24, 2018 2:20:25 PM / by Virginia Lorenzi posted in FHIR, HL7 education, HL7, SMART on FHIR
HL7 is gearing up for a fall season that is chock full of flexible and convenient FHIR training opportunities for busy people like working professionals and students.
[fa icon="calendar'] Sep 14, 2018 11:27:08 AM / by Debi Willis posted in FHIR, HL7, HL7 community, health IT, FHIR Apps Roundtable
Reflections from an HL7 FHIR Applications Roundtable Presenter
When I was a little girl, I wanted to grow up and do something to make the world a better place for everyone. I thought about becoming a missionary, a doctor or a teacher. Eventually I became a computer programmer because I love solving problems with technology.
To solve big problems, collaboration with many people with varied backgrounds and skill sets is vital for success. This is why I love working with the HL7 FHIR community. HL7 brings together people from all over the planet with a single focus to improve the exchange of electronic health information. Each person brings their experiences and insights into solving real world problems in healthcare. Together we’re learning how to use and expand the HL7 FHIR standards to solve those problems.
The HL7 FHIR Applications Roundtable
I really enjoy the HL7 FHIR Application Roundtable events. These events give developers an opportunity to show us their creations. Seeing what others have built to solve specific problems encourages me about the future of healthcare.
I had an opportunity to showcase our new MyLinks application at a recent HL7 FHIR Applications Roundtable event. For almost two decades, my software company (PatientLink) built products to enable patients to send their information directly into an electronic health record as structured data. This helped doctors understand the patient’s history to provide better care for them. Then cancer changed everything. After experiencing many frustrations in trying to gather my personal records for my care, I decided it was time to build something for patients.
I felt there were three important things I needed.
This was the genesis for MyLinks: Linking patients to their doctors and their data, to each other and to researchers.
[fa icon="calendar'] Aug 3, 2018 11:07:26 AM / by Sadhana Alangar, PhD posted in FHIR, HL7 education, HL7 Affiliates, CDA, HL7, Version 2, interoperability, Version 3
A Little About HL7
[fa icon="calendar'] Jul 10, 2018 4:39:40 PM / by Jeffrey Danford, MS posted in FHIR, HL7, HL7 community, interoperability, health IT, Google, Apple, DevDays, apps
HL7® FHIR® DevDays Comes to the U.S.
[fa icon="calendar'] Jun 25, 2018 3:45:00 PM / by Russ Leftwich, MD posted in FHIR, HL7, HL7 community, interoperability, health IT, Google, Connectathon, Apple, DevDays, apps
Boston is on FHIR!
HL7® FHIR® DevDays in Boston just concluded. This first US Edition of HL7 FHIR DevDays exceeded expectations in all respects. Attendance eclipsed all previous HL7 FHIR DevDays events and there was a waiting list. The content was stellar and was a window into the rapidly changing future of healthcare data liquidity and secure data access that is starting to become reality. Furthermore, the State Room venue on the 33rd floor above downtown Boston was spectacular.
Caption: View of downtown Boston from the State Room on the 33rd floor.
[fa icon="calendar'] Feb 5, 2018 1:41:34 PM / by Sandeep Giri posted in FHIR, HL7, HL7 community, health IT, Connectathon, Patient Consent, Patient Experience, Operational Efficiency, Apple, HIPAA, CCDE, Right to Access, OAuth2
The HL7® FHIR® Connectathon Consumer Centered Data Exchange Track
Covered entities face an ever-growing demand to enable digital health apps to access Protected Health Information (PHI). The technical and legal requirements to enable this are the focus areas for the Consumer Centered Data Exchange (CCDE) track at the HL7 FHIR Connectathon. This track initiated at the San Diego Connectathon (September 2017), and it made more progress recently (January 27-28) at the New Orleans Connectathon. Track participation may have been piqued by Apple’s recent announcement that it will provide patients an “effortless solution bringing health records to iPhone”, and that Apple will use FHIR services to enable this.
Caption: Participants at the HL7 FHIR Connectathon 17 in New Orleans, LA. Image credit: Kai Heitmann.
Apple’s announcement couldn’t be more closely tied to the work of the enthusiastic CCDE track participants, representing the entire healthcare industry including providers, payers, government, academia and app developers. Apple could benefit a lot from this track’s work if iPhone users are to access PHI from covered entities beyond the initial 12 participants of the iOS 11.3 beta.
Why? Mainly because the CCDE track focuses on 3 key requirements:
[fa icon="calendar'] Jan 8, 2018 10:04:52 AM / by Wayne Kubick posted in FHIR, HL7, work groups, collaboration
The journey to an improved collaboration tooling infrastructure continues. My last update focused on the goal to make the Atlassian Confluence Wiki and Jira Issue Tracking tools available for use by HL7 work groups. These tools are now available for pilot use and are a sample of the myriad of benefits these tools may offer our global community.
Health Level Seven® International (HL7) is an ANSI-accredited, not-for-profit standards developing organization with the mission of empowering global health interoperability. With affiliates in over 30 countries, HL7’s global membership envisions a world in which everyone can securely access and use the right data when and where they need it. Widely implemented by vendor and healthcare systems, and required by governing bodies around the world, HL7 standards deliver solutions for health information technology, including HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®), Version 2 (V2) and Clinical Document Architecture (CDA®).
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