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SNOMED International – LOINC LOINC is the world's most widely used terminology standard for health measurements, observations, and documents. LOINC helps make health data more portable and understandable to different computer systems and applications.

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How to Improve Data Normalization in Healthcare Data normalization is critical for healthcare interoperability, but how can organizations address challenges to normalizing their data and improve the process in the future?

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FHIR at Scale Task Force Moves From ONC to HL7 FAST project was founded to identify FHIR scalability barriers and define a common set of infrastructure standards for scalable FHIR solutions

Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa and Kenya remain Africa’s “big four” from a funding perspective in the number of African startups securing investment, securing a greater share of total funding between them than in 2020, yet Nigeria soared past all other countries to take top spot, with 161 startups raising a huge combined total of more than US$900 million.

African tech startup funding trebles to pass $2bn mark in 2021 - Disrupt Africa Investment into the African tech startup ecosystem almost trebled over the course of a record-breaking 2021 that saw total funding pass the US$2 billion mark for the first time.

Under AB 133, the Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) will convene a Health Equity
and Quality Committee that will make recommendations to the DMHC regarding standard health
equity and quality measures. These measures will include annual benchmark standards for
assessing equity and quality in health care delivery in California. Furthermore, healthcare service
plans would be required to annually report equity and quality data and information to the DMHC.

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ONC Releases Draft of USCDI Version 3 Draft adds data elements in the Health Status, Procedures, Health Insurance, and Patient Demographics data classes

HL7® Launches Helios FHIR® Accelerator for Public Health The HL7 FHIR Accelerator Helios, is a new initiative launched by HL7 and is jointly supported by the CDC and the ONC to advance public health.

HL7 Launches FHIR Accelerator for Public Health Data Helios, named after the ancient Greek god of the sun, intends to streamline data sharing across all levels of public health using the FHIR standard

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California Consumer Privacy Act can cause headaches for healthcare orgs A recent study suggests that healthcare organizations can face legal and technological challenges when it comes to complying with the regulation.

What Do APIs Mean for Health Interoperability, Data Exchange? Application programming interfaces (APIs) could serve as a key feature of the national interoperability infrastructure for health data exchange.

Several of the projects we are working on a directly related to addressing this issue.

Methamphetamine-involved overdose deaths nearly tripled between 2015 to 2019, NIH study finds Patterns of methamphetamine use have become riskier, diversified across U.S. population.