Bulk FHIR Will Change What Payers Expect From Providers

Don Rucker, MD, 1upHealth’s Chief of Strategy Officer and former ONC chief, recently sat down with HealthLeaders to discuss how Bulk FHIR and newly maturing standards for healthcare data interoperability will make providers more accountable to payers for the overall quality of care they provide.

Key Takeaways:

• Data sharing via Bulk FHIR will allow payers to judge health of populations more effectively than traditional quality standards.
• Standards work follows a Spring 2020 ONC rulemaking to implement population-friendly FHIR interoperability.
• Failure of traditional quality measures stored in CDC data silos during the COVID-19 pandemic is further evidence that a new interoperability approach is necessary.

To read the Don’s interview in full, click here: Read Article

This article was originally published by HealthLeaders on February 9th, 2022. 

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HealthLeaders, an HCPro brand, is a multi-platform media company dedicated to meeting the business information needs of healthcare executives and professionals. They offer an extensive and integrated series of leadership publications, products, research, and events dedicated to the business of healthcare.

About 1upHealth: 

1upHealth is the leading FHIR® platform that connects an ecosystem of payers, providers, patients, life sciences, and app developers within a trusted interoperability network. Unlike legacy enterprise companies, 1upHealth was created and built with the modern healthcare infrastructure in mind. The 1up FHIR® platform is serverless with cloud-native applications that transform data at enterprise scale with greater ease and simplicity to improve patient outcomes, drive population-level analytics and enable medical innovation. Founded in 2017, the company is connected to more than 10,000 clinical endpoints with best-in-class FHIR® APIs. Gartner designated 1upHealth a “Cool Vendor in Healthcare Interoperability” for its FHIR® platform.