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 ...

What is an application programming interface? One of the more evocative definitions in recent memory comes, of all places, from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs: "Think of an API as a server in ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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), ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR) data-exchange standard has generated headlines in health information technology circles for the last several years, but its inclusion in recently ...