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AbstractMany of us can think back to a key role a teacher played in shaping our world-view or our career. In my case, one such person was Dr. Hiram Curry, a general practitioner who retrained in...
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AbstractIn 2011, Australian HL7 standards guru, Grahame Grieve, proposed a new interoperability approach he called “Resources for Health (RFH)”. He said it would define a set of objects to represent...
View ArticleA Brief History and Overview of Health Informatics
AbstractThis first chapter provides a brief history of some, but certainly not all, of the key subdomains within the health informatics field and further explains the potential significance of the FHIR...
View ArticlePayer Applications of FHIR
AbstractEarlier we discussed how the Utah Health Information Network (UHIN) began as a secure, standards-based approach to exchange health insurance claims information. Today, the interaction between...
View ArticleSMART on FHIR
AbstractRecognizing that a universal platform for EHR connected apps was an important challenge, the Office of the National Coordinator funded a Harvard group in 2010 to pursue it. This eventually led...
View ArticleFHIR
AbstractIn 2011, Australian HL7 standards guru, Grahame Grieve, proposed a new interoperability approach he called “Resources for Health (RFH)”. He said it would define a set of objects to represent...
View ArticleData and Interoperability Standards
AbstractData and interoperability standards are the virtually ubiquitous plumbing that underlie most contemporary health informatics systems and tools. We’ve already gotten a glimpse of that when we...
View ArticleHealth Information Exchange
AbstractIn the previous chapter we discussed how health information technology is being used to help patients better manage their own care. Providing patients with the data to do this is a key...
View ArticleHealth Informatics in the Real World
AbstractIn this chapter, we begin a discussion of the key informatics tools needed to power a Learning Health System. These include electronic records for both providers and patients as well as...
View ArticleFHIR Applications Showcase
AbstractThis chapter, unlike the others, does not focus on a specific use case for health informatics and FHIR but rather showcases some examples of FHIR implementations that demonstrate what I...
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AbstractMy mentor, Dr. Hiram Curry, used to caution his residents that they would see patients for a few minutes every so often and think that what they did in those few brief encounters would make all...
View ArticlePre-FHIR Interoperability and Decision Support Standards
AbstractIn the last chapter, we looked at the evolution of standards and examined the key health data standards. For use in actual patient care standardized clinical data, typically along with other...
View ArticleFHIR Applications in Payment
AbstractToday, the interaction between health care providers and payers is often manual, error prone and retrospective when it could be done more automatically and accurately in real time. It is often...
View ArticleThe Empowered Patient
AbstractPatient facing health informatics is an increasingly rich and interesting field, particularly because many people now use smartphone apps, wearable and other sensors and mobile devices to...
View ArticleThe US Health Care System
AbstractThis chapter briefly describes the US health care system and some of the most important of its many problems, many of which are shared by health systems around the world. This is a complex...
View ArticlePublic and Population Health
AbstractIn the clinical setting, the focus is on individual patients after they become sick or injured. In contrast, public and population health focus on groups of patients or the public at large....
View ArticleA Brief History and Overview of Health Informatics
AbstractThis first chapter provides a brief history of some, but certainly not all, of the key subdomains within the health informatics field and further explains the potential significance of the FHIR...
View ArticleCorrection to: Public and Population Health
Chapter 12 in: Mark L. Braunstein, Health Informatics on FHIR: How HL7's API is Transforming Healthcare
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