HL7 News and Resources for Healthcare

ONC Enters Next Phase of Genomic Data Sharing Pilot Project

January 13, 2021 - ONC is currently recruiting additional demonstration sites for phase four of its Sync for Genes pilot project, an effort to standardize and improve genomic data sharing between laboratories, providers, patients, and researchers. Launched in 2017, the ONC Sync for Genes pilot aims to advance the use of industry-supported standards for the exchange...

ONC Projects Aim to Standardize SDOH Data for Precision Medicine

April 15, 2020 by Jessica Kent

The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) is working to standardize the collection of social determinants of health data to help advance precision medicine and inform new treatments. Information...

HL7 Releases FHIR Version 4.0 for Healthcare Interoperability

January 02, 2019 by Jennifer Bresnick

HL7 International has published the long-anticipated FHIR Release 4 (R4), allowing healthcare organizations to make new leaps forward in health data interoperability. “R4 is the culmination of...

FHIR is Blazing a Path to Patient-Centered, Data-Driven Healthcare

October 11, 2018 by Jennifer Bresnick

Only a few short years after the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources were introduced to the healthcare industry, almost no one knows what they are. The lengthy, somewhat cumbersome proper name has nearly disappeared from print, and...

Da Vinci Project Brings HL7 FHIR to Payers for Big Data Analytics

March 15, 2018 by Jennifer Bresnick

In just a few short years, HL7 FHIR has exploded in popularity to enable unprecedented connectivity across the healthcare ecosystem. The internet-based data standard has started to hit...

How FHIR Offers a New Approach to Working with Healthcare Data

October 12, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

Healthcare organizations seeking a simple, intuitive, and standardized way to solve many of their most pressing big data problems don’t have to look much further than the HL7 Fast Healthcare...

What Healthcare IT Users Don’t Really Need to Know about FHIR

March 01, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

The healthcare industry may not be the nimblest when it comes to adopting and truly optimizing new technologies, as most EHR users will readily agree. Reluctance, denial, frustration, and...

Google Cloud Partners with HL7 to Support FHIR Development

February 21, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

ORLANDO - HL7 International and Google have partnered to bring Google's cloud clout to bear on the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource, commonly known as FHIR. At HIMSS17 this week, Google...

Argonaut Project Aims to Boost Standards, EHR Interoperability

December 05, 2014 by Jennifer Bresnick

EHR interoperability and data standards will get a boost from vendor and providers commitment to the new Argonaut Project. A consortium of EHR developers, healthcare systems, and informatics experts are...

HL7 data repositories bring visibility to big data analytics

September 18, 2014 by Jennifer Bresnick

For a large healthcare organization like Seattle Children’s Hospital, the amount of clinical and administrative data constantly rolling in can be staggering. A robust data analytics infrastructure...

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