Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources

ONC indicated that some of these criteria have been selected to remain in the certification program because the use of legacy standards were still being used in some healthcare sectors, which we at HIMSS agreed with.

And they wanted more time to transition to the FHIR standard.

As I said, this was consistent with HIMSS's comments.

We agree there are potential gaps in care, safety, and access that could emerge from a transition timeline where providers or health systems are not ready for that.

But this administration has not been keen on maintaining things that were decided upon during the Biden era.

in any form or fashion within the healthcare world.

Despite the agency's motivation to transition the health IT certification program to a FHIR-based API ecosystem, ONC retained the majority of certification criteria and gave additional time to transition away from that CCDA-based functionality we talked about, the consolidated clinical document architecture.

What are your thoughts? So this is the clipboard, right?

Right.

On top of that, another area where we invest heavily, we participate in various trade organizations to help drive standards and interoperability, whether it's a DICOM Working Group 9, whether it's working with CCOI and the FHIR standard and Eyes on FHIR standard.

The data out of the device is hypercritical, right? And leveraging those standards, those standards have ways of, let's just say, DICOM, for example.

It's a term that's utilized often, but not a lot of people really understand what it means when you're talking about it.

Clean structure with one format.

Could be FHIR, could be HL7, could be JSONs.

Whatever they need, we are going to work so they can receive that information.

So what does our client need? They need everything.

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What you need to know that U.S. healthcare industry suffers from the widespread issue of converting EHR extracts to FHIR for real-time integrations of multiple sources.

The, the barriers, an aspect of it is, kind of, standardization of that policy that I mentioned as well, in terms of, and, kind of, double-clicking on that a little bit, is what standards are being used to transfer, transmit data.

So we talk about HL7 and FHIR, but we also then, we need to have a standardized approach of how we store that data once they are in one location or one, kind of, federated location as well.

So within the NHS, we have the canonical data model, but there are also other international models like openEHR for clinical information and OMOP for research-type purposes as well.

So I would say just, just on that answer alone, having a, I guess, a blueprint effectively on how we want to actually pull that together is, I would, I would say, top of the list in terms of one of the challenges.

And the industry, I think, is very much leaning towards a combination of a international open standards-based approach.

And this is where I think we believe at Quantexa that the single patient record, uh, program will be a great opportunity to do that blueprint to a certain degree.

Expanded on the standards and frameworks, uh, FHIR, you just mentioned, so the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources.

I love a slightly contrived acronym.

And if you're a clinician and you pull up a bunch of CCDAs on a separate screen next to your electronic health record, yeah, you can read all those, but the information's going in your head and you become an information mule all of a sudden, and then you're looking at their record, and you have to reconcile the CCDA and the electronic health record in your own brain, as opposed to, hey, I can bring these CCDAs directly into the EHR, make orders against them, and you just can't do that.

And so it's like we created this national exchange, but they're not using FHIR.

And it is really disappointing, considering the amount of effort that's gone into creating FHIR in the first place.

Like I've been a part of that.

I am in the HL7 community.