Are Healthcare Standards Meeting Your Business Needs? HL7 Wants to Know.

With so much evolving in healthcare and technology, it can be hard to keep up and difficult to see where the work that we, and our peers, do is being applied to help caregivers and patients. 

That's why we've hand-selected these recent articles featuring the world of healthcare interoperability and other related issues that our team finds to be worth a quick read.

• CommonWell and VA Work Together to Refine Quality and Consistency of Data
• Why VA's Electronic Health Record Mega-Project is Failing

• The Heat is On: US Caught FHIR in 2019
• Opportunity Trifecta: ISA, SVAP and Draft USCDI Version 3 Feedback Period Now Open
• What’s on Deck for the 2021 Tech Forum?
• ONC Wants Input on Qualified Health Information Network Framework

SDOs & Other Organizations

• The CARIN Alliance: Advancing Consumer-Directed Exchange in 2021
• The July 2021 SNOMED CT International Edition Release is Now Available
• Collaboration Agreement Formalized with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics for Nutrition Content in SNOMED CT
• HL7 Comments on ONC Health Interoperability 2030 Outcomes
• HL7 Responses – NCVHS Subcommittee on Standards Request for Public Comment on Health Care Standards Development, Adoption and Implementation
• Google Cloud Rolls Out Technology to Map Medical Records Data to FHIR Standard

Healthcare Topics

• The Missing Ingredient in Your Hospital’s Social Determinants Initiative
• Is the 'Open Notes' Rule as Good in Practice as it is in Theory?
• A.I. Can Help Organize & Retrieve EHR Data

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