On January 2, Health Level Seven debuted the new version of its interoperability specification. Many CIOs and technologists in healthcare have been awaiting the fourth iteration of the Fast Healthcare ...

Industry leaders argue that a stronger push for interoperability in healthcare will lead to a better understanding of population health and improved care delivery, where easily shareable data can be ...

The emerging protocol known as FHIR has been most closely associated with interoperability so far. The acronym, after all, stands for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources. But if the standard ...

Today’s health plans are still facing daunting challenges with stakeholder collaboration, system interoperability, and a changing consumer market. As patients take on more responsibility for their ...

Pacific Northwest insurer Regence is teaming with MultiCare Connected care to roll out a new tool that aims to ease the administrative burden of prior authorization. Regence and MultiCare, an ...

Former ONC chief Don Rucker and HL7 are championing a new form of healthcare IT interoperability. Newly maturing standards for healthcare data interoperability will make providers more accountable to ...

FHIR is a data exchange standard maintained by the Health Level Seven International (HL7), a standards body. FHIR seeks to be the next-generation foundation by which electronic health records (EHRs), ...

A little over a decade ago, fewer than 10% of hospitals were using electronic health records (EHRs). But then healthcare officially moved into the digital age when the 2009 Health Information ...

The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is emerging as a next-generation standards framework developed by HL7 for exchanging electronic health care data. The modeling capability of FHIR ...

Nicholas Domnisch is the CEO & Partner of EE Solutions, an NYC-based software development agency empowering innovation in digital health. At this point, no one can argue that the healthcare industry ...