Interoperability

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The FHIR R4 APIs in version 2020.2 of the platform will enable broader access to provider, payer and pharmacy benefits data – and can help boost compliance with upcoming interoperability and patient access rules, the company says.

The latter company’s portfolio includes interfaces to improve communication and integration among different IT systems, migration tools and more.

Two groups applied the Framework for Cross-Organizational Patient Identity Management, first developed with Intermountain in 2016, to payers – and found a high matching accuracy rate across 36 different organizations.

S4S pilot project participants noted that research requirements can affect the ability to adopt third-party apps, among other barriers to broader adoption of patient-directed data sharing.  

At the American Medical Informatics Association virtual annual symposium this week, Dr. Anthony Fauci raised the possibility of registries to track which patients had received which vaccine doses.

But at the AMIA virtual symposium this week, health IT professionals said they still see the potential of app-based ecosystems.

The draft report leaked to HSJ examines how doctors and pharmacists can be supported to review prescriptions. 

Ongoing Senate races could have unforeseen impacts on healthcare IT, says Tom Leary, senior vice president of government relations at HIMSS.

A report on interoperability this week gave high marks for how those vendors handle outside data, progress notes workflow and other key usability metrics.