Posts by Rick Geimer
Health Samurai FHIR Profiling Meet-Up
Rick Geimer talked FHIR profiling with Trifolia-on-FHIR earlier this month. His presentation supported the overall topic of FHIR profiling solutions, and described and demonstrated Trifolia-on-FHIR’s features.
Read MoreUsing CDA to Build a World on FHIR
This talk will presented a roadmap for a blended, heterogenous environment that provides both growth and continuity and expands the utility of current information systems. Rick Geimer and Don Lee described the foundation for a path forward and their experience driving down that path supporting care planning, public health, and information exchange.
Read MoreFHIR Documents
Rick Geimer presented on FHIR Documents at FHIR Dev Days. The event was attended by 587 participants in 43 countries.
Read MoreFHIR & CDA: Dual Standards or Dueling Standards?
WEDI Winter Conference: Transactions to Tranformation
Transitioning from CDA to FHIR
FHIR, HL7’s latest standard, supports the document paradigm without document restrictions. FHIR includes a RESTful API out of the box, as well as alternate syntaxes (i.e., XML and JSON). The industry will need transition strategies for those invested heavily in CDA while new implementers move directly to FHIR.
Read MoreHL7 Fall WGM: C-CDA on FHIR
This comprehensive tutorial covers FHIR documents; C-CDA on FHIR and US Core; Converting, managing, and validating FHIR documents; and Current/Future Work and Resources.
Read MoreIntroduction to Consolidated CDA(C-CDA)
In this tutorial, Rick Geimer covers the history and need for the Consolidated CDA guide; Use cases for each document type; How to read and understand the guide; Similarities and differences with past work; and Available tools and resources
Read MoreFHIR Alignment with USCDI Panel: C-CDA on FHIR
Describes the C-CDA on FHIR project, it’s relationship to US Core and where it fits into a transitional roadmap.
Read MoreWEDI Summer Forum: A Deep Dive in the Use of LOINC Codes, C-CDA and LOINC
In the presentation, Rick Geimer describes how LOINC codes support the request for additional information and the classification and management of that information.
Read MoreHL7 Webinar: C-CDA on FHIR
In this tutorial, Rick Geimer covers CDA, C-CDA, and FHIR documents; discusses the relationship between C-CDA-on-FHIR and the US Core; conversion between formats; and presented a live walk-through of samples and conversions.
Read MoreHL7 FHIR Developer Days: C-CDA on FHIR
This comprehensive tutorial covers FHIR documents; C-CDA on FHIR and US Core; Converting, managing, and validating FHIR documents; and Current/Future Work and Resources.
Read MoreLantana Webinar: C-CDA-on-FHIR
Rick Geimer, Chief Innovation Officer, presented an overview of FHIR Documents, a walkthrough of the C-CDA on FHIR implementation guide, and coverage of bi-directional C-CDA to FHIR transformations including demonstrations. Download the recording and the Q&A log for more information.
Read MoreWEDI: Standards for Electronic Attachments
Rick Geimer presented an overview of the interoperability standards proposed for HIPAA-compliant national electronic attachments.
Read MoreWEDI-Con 2017
Rick Geimer presented “Attachment Payloads: A Detailed View into HL7 C-CDA for Attachments.” Rick demonstrated how to create a CDA document from scanned date and provided a detailed look at crafting HL7 Consolidated CDA documents based on attachments guidelines.
Read MoreHL7 2017 FHIR Developer Days
FHIR Developer Days is the largest HL7 FHIR event in the world. The three-day event covers some 50 tutorials and keynotes, numerous hands-on sessions guided by experts, and networking opportunities. Rick Geimer led the FHIR Documents track.
Read MoreCDA in the Wild: Conclusion (Installment #8)
Clinical Documents were never meant to hold 10 pounds of coded data. CDA is a 5-pound bag, containing the actual words, either written directly by a clinician or spoken and transcribed, with the minimal coding necessary for the use case.
Read MoreCDA in the Wild: Timing is Everything (Installment #7)
Will time be cruel to CDA? Some think so, we think it is still alive and kicking. The hard part of CDA has always been its HL7 V3 heritage, and it is HL7 V3, not CDA that needs to join the dinosaurs, buried in shale and crushed into carbon.
Read MoreHL7 FHIR Applications Roundtable Showcase
On July 27-28, 2016, Health Level Seven (HL7) convened the first ever roundtable focused on state of the art in application development for the emerging Fast Healthcare Interoperable Resources (FHIR) standard. Lantana’s CEO Liora Alschuler and CTO Rick Geimer attended. Rick gave two of the presentations featured.
Read MoreFHIR Profiling in Trifolia Tutorial
In this tutorial, Rick Geimer and Sean McIlvenna explain how to create and modify Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) profiles using the new functionality in the Trifolia template database. Trifolia is a web-based tool with over 500 users searching, creating, and modifying Clinical Data Architecture (CDA) templates and implementation guides. The latest version provides experimental support for FHIR profile creation.
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