AzHeC Standards Desk

Health IT

Why “We Support HL7” Is Not Enough: A Buyer’s Field Guide

A practical guide for Arizona organizations evaluating interoperability claims, with the specific qu...

USCDI and the Annual Cadence of Interoperability Data

The U.S. Core Data for Interoperability expands on a yearly rhythm, and the FHIR US Core guide track...

Supply Chain Interoperability

GLN, GTIN, and the Map of a Healthcare Supply Chain

Supply-chain interoperability rests on identifying products, locations, and shipments unambiguously....

e-Prescribing & Pharmacy Supply

Inside e-Prescribing: What Actually Happens Between Click and Pharmacy

An explainer on the messaging, directories, and identity controls that move an electronic prescripti...

GS1 Identifiers and FDA UDI: One Barcode, Two Jobs

GS1’s GTIN is one of the identifier systems FDA accepts for UDI. We explain how supply-chain identif...

Telehealth & Remote Monitoring Equipment

Remote Patient Monitoring: The Standards Behind the Devices

RPM is often framed as a billing or device topic. We examine the data-standards and integration laye...

Connected & Smart Medical Devices

How a Connected Infusion Pump Becomes a Row in the EHR

Tracing the path device data travels — from a bedside pump to a structured, coded entry in the medic...

Supply Chain Interoperability

UDI Capture at the Point of Care: Closing the Last Mile

A device identifier is only useful if it is captured where care happens. We examine the workflow, do...

From Documents to Data Elements: The Quiet Shift in Health Exchange

Health information exchange is moving from trading whole documents toward querying discrete data ele...

Interoperability & The Network

Reading an HL7 v2 ADT Message Without Fear

HL7 version 2 still carries most real-time clinical messaging. A guided walk through the segments of...

Interoperability & The Network

What FHIR R4 Actually Means for Arizona Providers

A practical explainer separating FHIR, US Core, and USCDI — three layers providers conflate — and wh...

FDA UDI Requirements Complete Their Phase-In for Low-Risk Devices

The FDA’s Unique Device Identification rule finished its long, risk-tiered rollout. We summarize whe...

FHIR Release 4 Reaches Normative Status: What It Signals for Arizona

HL7’s FHIR Release 4 was the first version of the standard to carry normative content, giving Arizon...