Boston FHIR @ SMART (Boston Children's Hospital)

Our next Meetup is coming up soon. We have two talks planned, with Q&A and networking. Food and beverages are provided by our host, Boston Children's Hospital, where SMART and CDS Hooks all started!

Doors open at 5:30pm, we should start the first talk around 6pm. We will have a short break between talks for announcements, including job opportunities.

Location:

Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP)
Boston Children's Hospital
Landmark Center at 401 Park Drive.
5th Floor, East Wing.

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From Let Patients Help to Get Out of My Way

Did you miss DevDays in Amsterdam last year? One of the memorable highlights was a keynote by Boston-based patient activist "e-Patient Dave," from Nashua NH, titled "From Let Patients Help to Get Out of My Way," making the compelling, evidence-based case that good things can happen when patients can access their data ... even if they don't have medical training ... so we're holding up progress if we get in the way.

By Dave deBronkart

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FHIR Bulk Data

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.

By Dan Gottlieb