HIMSS 2025
HIMSS 2025 was a great success for Lantana. We were thrilled to partner with other FHIRBall members in the exhibit hall again this year. The FHIR Business Alliance (FHIRBall) is a global partnership of organizations using the HL7® FHIR® standard to drive major changes in health IT. FHIRBall’s purpose is to expand FHIR knowledge, spread awareness about health interoperability, and build more interoperable FHIR solutions around the world.
CARIN Implementation Guide for Blue Button®
Corey Spears, Principal Healthcare Standards Advisor
The CARIN for Blue Button Framework was designed to answer the challenge for health plans to “meet or exceed” the CMS Blue Button 2.0 capabilities in providing consumer-facing application APIs providing encounter and claims data. CARIN for Blue Button enables payers to meet CMS regulatory requirements aimed at improving healthcare cost transparency and patient access to their clinical and administrative healthcare data. This presentation provided an update on the latest work by the CARIN Alliance family of specifications and a deeper dive on the latest changes to the CARIN Blue Button specification.
Semantic Interoperability through FHIR
Jeff Brown, Principal Healthcare Standards Advisor:
It’s very common to hear the term interoperability used frequently and generically in healthcare, but true semantic interoperability is the ultimate goal for clinical and administrative information exchange. The HL7 FHIR standard provides the most advanced capabilities to date in the effort to achieve semantic interoperability. This presentation provided, in a detailed and layered approach, an overview of the various aspects of FHIR to achieve this exchange—the meaning and intent of data that leads to better healthcare outcomes.
FHIR Implementation Guides as a Foundation for Healthcare Solutions
Jeff Brown, Principal Healthcare Standards Advisor
The HL7 FHIR standard provides a foundational specification on which robust and expansive healthcare solutions can be built. To provide the necessary guidance in developing these healthcare solutions, there needs to be a focused and understandable roadmap to leverage the various aspects of the FHIR specification. A FHIR implementation guide serves the role of the “blueprint” for implementing solutions for relevant use-cases important to the industry. This presentation provided a foundation to understand these guides and the many components intrinsically used to assist the implementer.
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