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by ch4s3 3309 days ago
Yeah DDI check are tricky, and you basically have to buy a solution.

As for the CCDA piece, that's interesting. It should be pretty easy to build that, it's a pretty simple standard and I think there are C# and Java libs that basically just do it.
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ndonnellan 3309 days ago
> It should be pretty easy to build that

lol. It's not the standard that's hard, it's how every EHR vendor has implemented it.

*ehr employee who's worked with CCDA and FHIR

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ch4s3 3309 days ago
Yeah, the implementation vary quite a bit. FHIR seems like it might actually be nice.
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schreiaj 3309 days ago
Dig into it a bit. It's not. :/

Maybe 80% of it is nice and sane and then you realize that it also seems to work for animals and you have a wtf moment.

I haven't dug into it in detail since DSTU2 though.

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ch4s3 3306 days ago
Yeah, the veterinary part is pretty stupid. Do you know the history behind that? Is it related to using the standard for research?

The DSTU2 json representation isn't bad(for the healthcare), and it's easier to work with than a lot of the adhoc in house apis I've seen. Though, Athen's api is nice. I do wish that FHIR did something like the CCDA, it's convenient to be able to consume health history in 1 shot.

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