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A set of interactive gools to conduct self-assessments at a public health agency. Covers both informatics and interoperability.

Describes some of the key principles related to information governance at public health agencies.

This presentation aims to introduce the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) in the context of public health participation in TEFCA-based data exchange. It features panelists who discuss how they envision their health agency benefiting from TEFCA and how they are preparing to participate. You will also learn more about the legal and policy considerations around TEFCA.

Surveillance modernization efforts emphasize the potential use of electronic health record (EHR) data to inform public health surveillance and prevention. However, EHR data streams vary widely in their completeness, accuracy, and representativeness. This publication describes a validation process developed by the Multi-State EHR-Based Network for Disease Surveillance (MENDS) pilot project to identify and resolve data quality issues that could affect chronic disease prevalence estimates.

The questions included in this FAQ were collected from the ASTHO Connects session, “TEFCA Overview and Perspectives from the Field” held on April 4, 2024 and follow-on questions from the session, as well as the ONC and CDC’s TEFCA Community of Practice. The questions answered in this document are not exhaustive: this FAQ will be considered a living document with updates made as ASTHO and its partners are able to answer additional questions.

Published ONC data briefs on a variety of interoperability topics.

Introduction to FHIR for Research is a three-hour training course that aims to provide NIH research scientists and program officers with an understanding of how FHIR could impact their research, and how they can take advantage of it. This webinar covers the background and context of FHIR, what data and tools are available, and examples of research using FHIR. It is broken into three parts:

Part 1: Background and Context of FHIR
This section provides essential background and context on FHIR, including the history and evolution of the standard, its relation to similar frameworks, and its components and data structure.

Part 2: The FHIR Ecosystem
After discussing FHIR background, we'll next turn to discussing the broader ecosystem of FHIR systems and capabilities practitioners can hope to leverage. This section will explore the extent of systems, tools, and applications available to users.

Part 3: Working with FHIR
We will now explore a detailed set of applications for FHIR starting with a sampling of recent FHIR uses in both industry and academia. We will then provide a series of case studies leveraging both Python and R to demonstrate how FHIR can be used to extract and utilize medical data.

This document is a companion to Section 1D of the Building Blocks Guide. It describes the steps required for HL7 message definition and provides additional information on the tools and topics discussed in the Guide, including the Implementation Workbook and the Message Validation Template.

A first-time attendee video for the HL7 FHIR Connectathon describes hands-on FHIR development and testing. The first two hours focus on an overview of FHIR, profiling, and implementation guides. The third hour is focused on what to expect at HL7 FHIR Connectathons. Time stamps for specific topics are provided below:
FHIR 101
6:10 FHIR Timeline
13:04 Regulatory drivers behind FHIR
13:35 Basics of FHIR (Overview)
15:45 Benefits of FHIR
17:35 Navigating the Specification
20:00 Resources
22:50 Profile
24:45 Extensions
26:45 FHIR Operations
28:00 Terminology
29:05 Modules
30:30 Scenario Example
32:30 Resource Content
34:20 Terminology Bindings
35:30 Search Parameters
36:10 Example Resource
37:30 References between Resources
40:15 Structure and Coding
41:40 Value Sets
43:00 Profiling
44:30 REST and APIs, SMART on FHIR
47:50 CDS Hooks
48:50 Bulk Data Access
49:00 CQL

How to Read an IG
53:00 Why do we need implementation guides?
54:00 What is an FHIR Implementation Guide?
54:50 Navigating the FHIR Implementation Guide
58:40 Homepage
59:40 Framework/Guidance
1:00:00 Use Cases/ Examples
1:02:50 FHIR Artifacts
1:04:10 Profiles
1:09:30 Slicing
1:10:45 Conformance
1:12:00 Terminologies
1:13:50 Operations
1:16:10 Capability Statement
1:18:25 Tips and Tricks
1:22:00 Where do you find FHIR IGs?

US Core Profiles
1:27:40 Cures Act Final Rule
1:29:00 Argonaut Project
1:32:10 US FHIR Core
1:34:30 Argonaut vs US Core
1:36:00 Profile-less FHIR
1:39:30 Profile Deep Dive
1:43:00 US Core Patient
1:44:50 Value Sets
1:47:30 US Core Capability Statement
1:48:30 Extensions
1:49:00 US Core and USCDI
1:51:45 Standards Version Advancement Process (SVAP)
1:54:00 USCDI ONDEC
1:55:20 Journey to US Core
2:01:30 Inferno
2:02:30 Future of Argonaut and US Core
2:04:50 Data vs Narrative

FHIR Testing, Tools, and Heading to a Connectathon
2:11:15 Interoperability Challenges
2:13:00 The 5 “Ws”
2:23:50 Testing with Touchstone
2:42:20 Connectathon Testing Experience

Healthcare organizations have many reasons for bulk-data export, such as populating a data warehouse for operational or clinical analytics, leveraging population health and decision support tools from external vendors, and submitting data to registries and regulatory agencies. Today, bulk export is often accomplished with proprietary pipelines, and data transfer operations frequently involve an engineering and field mapping project. Learn about an exciting new effort by SMART and HL7 to bring the FHIR standard to bear on these challenges of bulk-data export.

Four template job descriptions covering Executive, Management, Clinical and Professional roles. These may be a good starting point for putting together job descriptions for your program.

A General Introduction to FHIR, presented by Richard Ettema at HL7 FHIR DevDays, June 2018, Boston, MA

The interoperability of data, and delivery of a consistent level of data quality, are critical factors in the National Digital Health Strategy – both for quality of immediate care, and for the development of longer-term health strategies. This is the first of a three-part webinar series looking at interoperability and clinical terminologies, with a particular focus on the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), a key standard for interoperable data in Australia.

This two-part presentation 1)provides content on: the History of LOINC as an organization and a community of users; a definition of LOINC and LOINC code basics; the LOINC concept model; the six LOINC axeses; and resources for learning more about LOINC. 2) an overview of a typical mapping project using LOINC.

In this presentation, we provide an overview of the suite of tools developed by the National Institute for Standards and Technology to document v2 standards & test cases and to validate test messages against those requirements.

In this presentation, we will see how IG authors use profiles to add specific rules and constraints to the base standard to achieve the goals of the IG's use case.

In this presentation, we will examine some building blocks of the v2 IG, vocabulary, and data types.

In this presentation, we will look at the first sections of a v2 implementation guide to see how the documents set the context for interoperability.

This video presentation reviews how the authors of the existing newborn screening implementation guides describe the use of Acknowledgment messages. We also discuss the use of common error codes as a way to simplify addressing errors in processing.

This video presentation introduces the idea of using HL7 v2 Acknowledgment messages to communicate with data submitters. Acknowledgments are an important way to let submitters know when a message is processed and if any errors were encountered during processing.

This video presentation will explore the details of how FHIR resources are defined and used. We'll walk through examples to see how the FHIR standard is implemented to exchange real-world data.