As the healthcare industry continues to shift from fee-for-service to value-based care, data interoperability is increasingly becoming a key concern for providers trying to better engage with patients, improve clinical workflow, and ultimately drive better health outcomes. In fact, more than 70 percent of healthcare financial executives say that data interoperability must improve within the next three years to ensure the success of value-based care.The good news? The potential for secure,
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HSHS integrates SeamlessMD with Epic EHR Using New SMART on FHIR
Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) has announced its first ever integration using the new SMART on FHIR platform with Epic and SeamlessMD to deliver a unified experience for patient engagement. Starting with the Prairie Heart Institute at HSHS St. John’s Hospital, the health system is using SeamlessMD within the EpicCare environment to deliver patient engagement, enable care management, and leverage artificial intelligence to improve patient outcomes.Since 2017, Prairie Heart Institute has
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InterSystems Launches Data Platform to Accelerate Development of Data-Intensive Health Apps
With data at the heart of the digital transformation sweeping healthcare, InterSystems (a provider of IT platforms for health, business, and government applications) is releasing the world’s first and only data platform engineered specifically for healthcare data and is empowering developers to rapidly build and scale the industry’s next breakthrough applications.InterSystems IRIS for Health is built upon the company’s newest product, InterSystems IRIS Data Platform, which combines transaction
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Heal Brings Apple Unified Health Records to Doctor House Calls
Heal, the market-leader in house calls, today supports Health Records on iPhone, which brings together hospitals, clinics, and the existing Apple Health app to make it easy for patients to see their available medical data from multiple providers whenever they choose. Heal is in-network with all major PPO insurance plans in California, Washington D.C., and Northern Virginia, and is expanding to other locations across the country. Previously, patients’ medical records were held in multiple
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Meditech Launches New App Development Environment with API, FHIR Support
EHR vendor MEDITECH, today announced the launch of their new app development, MEDITECH Greenfield. Greenfield lays the groundwork for visionaries and innovators to create a better future for providers, patients, and consumers, with technology that connects communities and enables better care.MEDITECH Greenfield OverviewSupported by RESTful APIs, including FHIR, Greenfield is an open space for MEDITECH customers and third-party developers to cultivate homegrown applications. MEDITECH's API
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Blue Cross Blue Shield Association Taps Edifecs to Drive FHIR Adoption
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), today announced that it has chosen Edifecs as a partner to help drive FHIR adoption across BCBS companies. FHIR is the future of interoperability, and FHIR standards can resolve many of the healthcare industry’s critical business issues. As part of the partnership, Edifecs’ user-friendly Edifecs XEngine Server Module for FHIR will be offered to BCBS companies to support the rapid deployment of these data standards with minimal training required. What
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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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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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StayWell Adds SMART on FHIR to Increase EHR Integration Capabilities
StayWell, a health solutions company that uses the science of behavior change to help people live happier, healthier lives has added HL7® FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) standards for the new Krames On-Demand patient education digital app.The addition of SMART on FHIR to Krames On-Demand will make it easier for health systems to integrate Krames patient education materials into their clinical workflows with suggested individualized education for each patient. This enhanced
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Cerner Launches Open Developer Platform for Smart on FHIR Apps
To help accelerate an open community of healthcare innovation, EHR giant Cerner has launched the Cerner Open Developer Experience (code_)to enhance collaboration with third-party and client developers on SMART® on FHIR® applications. code_ is a digital experience designed to meet market expectations of open communications, robust API documentation, provide clearly defined guidelines and access to tools that enable innovative app development.
How It Works
Any developer can visit the new
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