The New Year is a time for reflection. At the pace the health IT
world is moving, reflections must be followed quickly by actions.
As the calendar turned over, Dynamic Health IT took a moment to
look back on a successful 2015. It was a year that included ambitious upgrades
to our products, a wide range of fulfilling client work, a website refresh and
some exciting new directions for our company (expanding our involvement in FHIR
and PQRS, to name a few).
But we don't like to rest on our laurels for long. So we're also
looking ahead to just a few of the things 2016 holds in store...
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What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas - unless of course you attending a massive health IT convention. In that case, you're going to hear about it all over social media for five solid days (you're probably hearing about it already).
From February 29 to March 4, our industry will converge on the Sands Expo and Convention Center. Dynamic Health IT will be exhibiting with MaxMD and you can find us both at Booth 12251. We're once again looking forward to spending some time with old friends and collaborators, as well as hearing some new stories.
We'll be sharing the fruits of our labor in 2015 and previewing some new developments for 2016, particularly in our Patient Portal and CQMsolution product lines.
Clinical Quality Measure Development
Having wrapped up a rigorous CQM development cycle in 2015 -
which included user interface upgrades and support for Cypress 2.6.1 - we
are looking ahead to supporting measures for the 2016 reporting year and
bringing our CQMsolution software into line with v2.7 and subsequent v3.0
Cypress upgrades. In addition to wider support for PQRS measures and other
enhancement, this will be another year of big developments in CQMs.
CCDA 2.1
This new draft standard for trial release (DTSU) of the
Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture standard was released for comment
last July. Vendors who are certifying under 2015 Edition will need to support
both v1.1 and v2.1 releases and produce three flavors of C-CDA: CCD (v3), Discharge
Summary and, for inpatient providers, Referral Notes.
Just last week, DHIT took part in a Implementation Connectathon,
exploring best practices for parsing and displaying these CCDAs alongside HL7
International, ONC and leading EMR systems. As HL7 continues to update the
CDA framework, we will remain on the leading edge, updating our software so
that our clients are well-positioned for the latest edition of EHR certification and
industry standard changes in general.
FHIR
Over 2015, Dynamic Health IT was an avid participant in the FHIR
community, attending Connectathons, releasing a new FHIR
white paper and working toward FHIR development goals (including the
testing of clinical quality measures with a FHIR server). In fact, as this post
was being written, a contingent of our DHIT team was in Orlando for a FHIR
Connectathon.
This year promises another full slate of FHIR events, ongoing
community dialogue and new steps toward wider implementation of the standard.
FHIR is now considered a "working standard" and should continue to
progress in the steps of maturity as outlined
by architect of the standard, Grahame Grieve.
Please do not hesitate to share concerns or questions about the
upcoming policy changes and requirements with DHIT. We can reach out to ONC and
CMS on our bi-monthly calls and other contacts to ensure that you have the
latest intel.
Look out for more updates from our shop in our February
Newsletter.
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