Stream: social
Topic: Graphite Health?
Dave deBronkart (Oct 12 2021 at 01:51):
Anyone here affiliated with this new partnership, or know anything about it? https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/tech/intermountain-presbyterian-and-ssm-health-announce-new-digital-transformation-company
Intermountain Healthcare, Presbyterian Healthcare Services and SSM Health announced Tuesday the launch of Graphite Health, a nonprofit aimed at facilitating the development and distribution of helpful digital health tools.
Graphite is already in talks with more than a dozen other providers interested in joining, it told Fierce Healthcare. Its plan is to build a data platform based on a common data language that works across its participating health systems, so new potential software is more easily and readily compatible. The data platform will also serve as more than just an electronic health record, helping providers incorporate patients’ health records, health plan information and their potential various social determinants of health when making decisions.
"data platform based on a common data language that works across its participating health systems" sounds delicious except there's no mention of #FHIR. How should I construe this?
In principle I can get my data out anyway, via a FHIR endpoint, right?
Is this an effort by these players to create an ecosystem that's not dependent on any EMR vendor?
Grahame Grieve (Oct 12 2021 at 02:33):
a few FHIR people are working for Graphite. Do you have questions?
Dave deBronkart (Oct 12 2021 at 11:32):
Great news!
I just wish they'd spotlighted it - the word doesn't even appear on their site, except in (Aneesh's blurb)[https://www.graphitehealth.io/perspectives]. Without FHIR (i.e. true patient-enabling interop) I'd be nothing but suspicious. Thanks!
Dave deBronkart (Oct 12 2021 at 11:33):
Next up, let's hope they appoint a (real) Chief Patient Officer. (I'm not talking about me. I already am one and I'm tired. :-))
Brendan Keeler (Oct 13 2021 at 13:36):
Some of the HL7 OGs are involved. They're very FHIR forward
Ward Weistra (Feb 08 2022 at 11:02):
@Preston Lee FYI :point_up:
Preston Lee (Feb 08 2022 at 14:33):
@Dave deBronkart @Grahame Grieve @Brendan Keeler Yup, a good number of folks from HL7-affiliated groups are with Graphite, including myself and a good number of those involved with Logica/HSPC and FHIR Sandbox system (moving into the new HL7 Implementation Division). We’re early on still but I can try to field (or any forward) any questions. My Graphite email is preston.lee@graphitehealth.io.
Preston Lee (Feb 08 2022 at 14:42):
@Dave deBronkart To answer both your questions: yes, both of those are aims of Graphite. FHIR is not only a key solution component of this, but a focal aspect of the ecosystem we’re building, in many ways. We will have some high-level materials and concepts on display at HIMSS in March.
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