CHICAGO – At HIMSS23 this week, a new public-private partnership was launched to help enable a broader understanding and more efficient implementation of a key interoperability specification.
WHY IT IMPORTANT
On Monday at the HIMSS23 HIE and Interoperability Forum, the new coalition – comprising health systems, payers and government agencies – was convened to begin working together to share experiences. implementation experiences, best practices, and tips on technical and non-technical barriers around standard HL7 mass use of FHIR.
Wider adoption of Bulk FHIR could benefit a wide range of healthcare use cases – from population health management to quality measurement, health equity and care coordination across networks. network of payers and suppliers.
These organizations (and their key people) have signed on to collaborate on sharing knowledge and wisdom related to their public or private mass FHIR data sharing initiatives. :
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Health Advocacy (Dr. Rasu Shrestha)
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Agilon Health (Girish Venkatachaliah, Varun Anand)
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ApolloMed (Yubin Park)
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Altitude (Ashok Chennuru)
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HIMSS (Tom Leary, Christina Caraballo)
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Mount Sinai (Mike Berger)
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All-in-one Care (Anna Taylor)
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Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (Steve Posnack)
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County Health (Troy Bannister)
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Rush Medical University System (Anil Saldanha)
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Tufts Pills (Dr. Shafiq Rab)
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UC Davis Health (Dr. Ashish Atreja, Dr. Yauheni Sorad)
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US Department of Veterans Affairs (Dr. Jonathan Nebeker)
As these organizations share feedback and best practices with each other, the hope is to spread insights and drive momentum for mass FHIR adoption – helping other organizations take the governance steps and the technology required for a successful implementation.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, as part of the 21st Century Cures Act Final Rule, added criteria for standardized APIs for patient and population services. number into the Health IT Certification Program for the Series FHIR. Electronic health record providers and other health IT developers who wish to maintain ONC certification must endorse this functionality by the end of 2022.
Former US Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra, now president of CareJourney, noted in a blog post that that request has resulted in a multitude of new products that support FHIR Batch.
“As of April 10, more than 250 unique products across more than 200 developers responded to this request and made this feature available to their customer base,” he said. “Notably, about 30% of certified products indicate that they rely on other vendors’ software to help meet ONC requirements.”
This week, Chopra called on healthcare stakeholders to join this voluntary partnership as part of an industry effort to meet the growing need for data-driven sharing. FHIR.
Among the new ongoing initiatives cited by the new alliance:
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A consortium organized by NCQA to assess the quality of real-world FHIR Bulk Data in tandem with the upcoming DAV-FHIR program. DAV-FHIR grants authenticated status to FHIR data streams if program requirements are met (i.e. legitimate access to source data to assist with primary source verification). The authenticated streams can then be used as standard supplemental data in the HEDIS report.
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An update to the VA Open API 2018 commitment to prevent Veteran suicide, provide more care and benefits to Veterans affected by toxic exposure, and support Veterans who have suffered challenged by social determinants of health (SDOH).
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A network of websites supported by the ONC Foundation and CDC connects a prototype version of Cumulus with participating mass FHIR endpoints to test USCDI’s tool as a data source for health monitoring and action. community health.
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A tentative pilot initiative by the CMS Innovation Center on the use of mass FHIRs for demographic and SDOH data collection, is specifically linked to the ACO REACH Model.
TREND TO BIGGER WOMAN
Four years ago, during the second Blue Button Developers Conference at the White House in 2019, several stakeholders – vendors, payers and IT organizations, made their initial commitment to testing. real-world batch FHIR experiments.
Since then, the potential of mass FHIR specifications has only increased – with new use cases emerging in the public health sector, quality improvement, etc.
During a session at HIMSS23 on Wednesday, former National Coordinator for Health IT, Dr Donald Rucker, along with Dr Kenneth Mandl of Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, will explore how FHIRs mass can help public and private healthcare organizations of all shapes and sizes better manage their data and track their performance across a range of key metrics.
Their discussion, Mass FHIR: Measuring Global Organizational Performance, is scheduled for April 19 from 2:3-3:30 p.m. in Room S504 in the South Building, Level 5.
ON PROFILE
Bulk FHIR “enables patient-level data at the touch of a button across the entire patient spectrum,” Mandl told Healthcare IT News. “We’d love to see, at our session, innovators of all kinds who use population data in their work.”
