The FHIR® standard, based on the same technology as mobile and web applications in other industries and on the definition of data elements and concepts in healthcare, has emerged with the purpose of seeing an individual's entire health and healthcare data in one view.
Gary James of Lincolnshire Health and Care, serving more than 700,000 patients in the East of England, explains how the county's new integrated Care Portal system is helping transform healthcare for an aging and widely dispersed population.
RIQI's statewide provider directory goes beyond basic information exchange requirements to enable sharing enriched information, integrating analytics, and building engaged online communities.
Russell Leftwich, MD, answers questions about the functionality, concerns and hype surrounding FHIR.
In this paper, Dr. Turner Billingsley, InterSystems Chief Medical Officer, suggests four key population health initiative characteristics to help healthcare entities ensure that patient health data is consistent, well-communicated and effectively coordinated across care teams.
Eric Widen, co-founder and CEO of HBI Solutions, answers questions about using the Spotlight Data Solution predictive analytics engine and discusses the likely future of patient-centered population health management.
In this HealthcareITNews interview, Russell Leftwich, MD, senior clinical advisor of interoperability at InterSystems and member of the HL7 board of directors, says IT professionals need to have a strategy for integrating the spec with existing standards into a hybrid model.
Electricity is a utility. It's necessary. And people are willing to pay because it allows us to do more impactful things. As this insightful blog posits, perhaps Health Information Exchanges should work in a similar way.
Electricity is a utility. It's necessary. And people are willing to pay because it allows us to do more impactful things. As this insightful blog posits, perhaps Health Information Exchanges should work in a similar way.
New payment models require much closer coordination among hospitals, physicians and the post-acute support providers needed to get patients healthier at a lower cost with equal or better quality. As this blog post discusses, most physicians and hospitals still need to go through practice and workflow transformation to deliver on the anticipated outcomes.
