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This is my overall summary of the Healthcare Standards, Privacy, and Security space. It happens that the framework for explaining why the future is bright for HIE comes from the  Wisconsin HIE (WISHIN)  fall  summit . Note  slide decks are now available .  They used the following diagram to show what they viewed as the HIE future. I like it, so will use it here This is such an exciting perspective of what the Wisconsin HIE delivers today, and where they are targeting for future support. The  other slide decks  further elaborate on this plan. It is driven by delivering Value, not just Volume.  They had a segment that focused on Care Coordination as a driver of these changes. I have written articles about each of these transitions and more. Here they are Introduction Manual  ==>  Automated Provider-Centered  ==> Patient-Centered Multiple Point-to-Point Connections  ==> Single Connection to Hub Updated @ Next Encount...

I have been pushing IHE to add FHIR conformance resources to their publication mechanism. I now have published the full set of FHIR conformance resources for PDQm and MHD profiles. Also available is mCSD by Luke. A bit of background. FHIR conformance resources are available to carry programatically the constraints that historically IHE has written narratively into an IHE Profile. An IHE Profile is a standard that takes a Use-Case and creates an Interoperability solution. This is done using long standing IHE Governance through a standards selection process, standards development process, public comment review, trial-implementation phase, and connectathon testing. An IHE Profile is very similar to an HL7 Implementation Guide. Each organization has variances, but both can do similar effort. IHE has been doing Profiling since 1998 IHE as an standalone organization can very easily and cleanly Profile large use-cases that require the interaction with many different standards. Profiling that...