This week at HIMSS18, Google unveiled their new Cloud Healthcare API, which addresses the significant interoperability challenges in healthcare data. The new API will provide a robust, scalable infrastructure solution to ingest and manage key healthcare data types—including HL7, FHIR and DICOM.Google is already working with a select group of partners including Stanford School of Medicine. "Open standards are critical to healthcare interoperability as well as for enabling biomedical research. We
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Human API Teams Up with CMS to Launch FHIR-based API
Human API, the largest patient-centric health data network has announced a collaboration with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to make the new CMS Blue Button 2.0 API available through the Human API data network. This collaboration will enable millions of Medicare patients to connect and authorize the sharing of their longitudinal claims information with new providers, clinical researchers, and digital health services.With the CMS Blue Button 2.0 API available through Human
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InterSystems Launches SMART on FHIR Sandbox for App Development Beyond EHR
InterSystems, a global leader in information technology platforms for health, business, and government applications, today introduced a FHIR sandbox to enable developers to connect to multi-source health records when testing and developing SMART on FHIR applications.The virtual environment will enable a gateway for Substitutable Medical Apps & Reusable Technology on Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, or “SMART on FHIR” applications to be tested through HealthShare™, InterSystems’
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Healthwise Launches FHIR App in Epic’s App Orchard Marketplace
Healthwise, a nonprofit organization with a mission to help people make better health decisions has announced the availability of its patient education app, Healthwise FHIR Solution for Epic: Point of Care, in Epic’s App Orchard marketplace. The adoption of the FHIR standard connects the healthcare industry in new and modern ways, improving interoperability.As an App Orchard contributor, Healthwise will utilize application programming interfaces (APIs), which serve as a bridge between Epic
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Allscripts Reaches 1 Billion API Health Data Exchanges in 2017
Health IT solutions provider Allscripts, today announced it has reached a milestone of one billion application Programming Interfaces (APIs) health data exchange transactions within 2017. The milestone marks the most ever in a single year through its open platform, and its relationships with innovative entrepreneurs and with healthcare providers.To date, the Allscripts Developer Program (ADP) has certified nearly 200 distinct apps and devices for its users, all currently available through the
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The ABCs of FHIR: Reinventing Health IT Interoperability
The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource, or FHIR (pronounced ‘fire’), is a new term in healthcare that’s witnessing growing interest and spreading almost like fire. FHIR is the latest standard to be developed under HL7 and is expected to contribute significantly to improving patient care, countering the barriers to interoperability, boosting information sharing, and unboxing innovation in healthcare. Stakeholders from all across the healthcare system are excited and enthusiastic about
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Zynx Health Unveils FHIR API to Deliver Evidence-Based Content for Enhanced Care
Zynx Health, a provider of evidence- and experience-based clinical improvement solutions has launched the availability of Zynx Health API, which provides access to Zynx content in the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard format. The Zynx Health API enables solution developers to easily integrate evidence-based clinical content across the patient care journey, driving improved clinical and financial outcomesAs healthcare moves to risk-based alternative payment models that
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drchrono Launches FHIR-Enabled PHR API to Support 10 Million Patients
Mobile EHR provider drchrono has announced that it is the first cloud-based EHR platform enabled for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). With FHIR, drchrono is enabling its 10 million patients access to their data via the FHIR API through the patient health record (PHR), onpatient. The new API is designed to support the Precision Medicine Sync for Science Initiative and fulfills one of the requirements of Meaningful Use Stage 3 to enable a PHR API.The goal of FHIR is to solve
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HL7 Publishes Domain Analysis Model for Clinical Sequencing: 5 Things to Know
Health Level Seven® International (HL7), an authority for health IT interoperability and provider of the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard, today announced that it has published the HL7 Domain Analysis Model: Clinical Sequencing, a model which captures precision medicine’s use cases to facilitate interoperability of genetic and genomic data. Here are five things to know about the new model: 1. . This domain analysis model (DAM) was the basis for the design of FHIR
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FHIR: Summer is Coming
Editor's Note: Lori Mehen is the Co-founder of Medlio, a next-generation platform that empowers healthcare consumers to engage and manage their healthcare experience. “Let me give you some advice, bastard. Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you.” - Tyrion Lannister, Game of ThronesTrust me. The irony is not lost on us.After years of toiling in obscurity on a set of problems repeatedly “negged” by investors and industry
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