As the U.S. Food and Drug Administration begins tracking the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, it needs timely and solid information. Wanting the ability to scale, the FDA turned to a next-generation exchange under the Rapid Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard, said Jay Nakashima, president of eHealth Exchange.
Don Woodlock, Vice President of Global Healthcare Solutions at InterSystems, added: Retrieve real-time information with on-demand tools like FHIR, an open standard that supports data exchange. data with legacy systems, facilitating new workflows, like automated prior authorization.
Since 2020, Nakashima and Woodlock have been collaborating with FDA’s Project BEST, or System for Biosafety and Efficacy – a drug and biologics safety project – on a pilot project leveraging FHIR to Automate the reporting of drug side effects after the drug is marketed.
In this episode of HIMSSCast, they discuss the first exchange of the FHIR model – an FDA query to Cedars Sinai health system in September 2022 – and how the Department of Veterans Affairs later appeared online on the service. proxy service in March 2023 to send notifications to veterans about biological and vaccination-related adverse events.
There could be more national use cases for FHIR exchanges once the model developed by the nonprofit and its partners becomes available to data exchanges, Nakashima and Woodlock said. Other countries.
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Communication skill:
- Suppliers are apprehensive about FHIR exchanges.
- Healthcare is sitting on a data ‘gold mine’ and needs to increase provider exchanges with payers, public health agencies and others.
- Government agencies are collecting real-time drug experience data using this model.
- What the FHIR standard still needs is large-scale implementation.
- TEFCA helps facilitate national FHIR use cases.
- Specific regulations and funding are needed to facilitate greater FHIR exchange.
More information on this topic:
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How AI and FHIR can help reduce mortality from sepsis
ONC Director of Interoperability Roadmap 2024
Providence deploys FHIR to support value-based care
HIMSSCast: Don Rucker’s fresh take on FHIR’s advancement, TEFCA and more
What Bulk FHIR can do for quality measurement and more
Andrea Fox is a senior editor at Healthcare IT News.
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