Bulk FHIR: Measuring Global Organizational Performance

Wednesday, April 19 at 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM CT
South Building, Level 5 | S504

FHIR is changing the way we can think and compute about healthcare and the SMART/HL7 Bulk FHIR Access programming interface formally extends these insights to populations of patients. The 21st Century Cures Act requires support for it and CMS has been using Bulk FHIR since its earliest release. Quality measurement is moving to use FHIR data sets. Bulk FHIR will bring the AI and machine learning tools from the “Big Data” world to healthcare. Ken Mandl and Don Rucker who spearheaded development and standardization of Bulk FHIR explain what Bulk FHIR is and the tools that can be used to take advantage of this data. The ability to do robust comparisons of provider performance with Bulk FHIR suggests policy and payment considerations and these will be discussed.

Learning Objectives

  • Describe Bulk FHIR
  • Access the Bulk FHIR API made available under the ONC Rule
  • Analyze how to use Bulk FHIR data
  • Evaluate implications of Bulk FHIR data in particular for quality measurement
Credits
CME, CNE, AHIMA, CAHIMS, CPHIMS
Status
Active
Audience
Chief Data Officer, Chief Quality Officer and Chief Clinical Transformation Officer, CIO/CTO/CTIO/Senior IT
ID
154

Speakers

Donald Rucker, MD, MS, MBA
Chief Strategy Officer
1upHealth
Ken Mandl, MD, MPH
Director, Computational Health Informatics Program and Donald A.B. Lindberg Professor of Pediatrics and Biomedical Informatics
Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School