W3C Credentials API Enables Cross‑Platform FHIR Health Sharing
With W3C Digital Credentials API, it's *finally possible* to design a health-data-sharing protocol that's idiomatic (standard FHIR-based resource sharing, questionnaire filling, etc) and works cross-platform (from web and mobile app requests to Android + iOS wallets)! See article for background + details on my updated "SMART Health Check-in Protocol".
Prune Idle Session History to Cut Resume Costs
Hmm @AnthropicAI or knowledgeable users, does "full" here mean "including pre-resumption"? >The design should have been simple: if a session has been idle for more than an hour, we could reduce users’ cost of resuming that session by clearing old thinking...
When Comfort Slogans Blur Between Flights and Funerals
Airline platitude or undertaker platitude? "It is our honor to care for you on your journey."
Claude Opus 4.7 Autonomously Validates COVID‑19 Drug Claims
This seemed like a fun task for Claude Opus 4.7! https://t.co/Z5qJwBNYwi has an example run on the claim "Hydroxychloroquine improves clinical outcomes in patients with COVID-19." https://t.co/kn0aWevNVv describes the pipeline. I spent 3-4h on this with Claude Code managing 10...
SMART Permission Tickets Enable Seamless Patient and Proxy Access
How might SMART Permission Tickets help with patient self-access, proxy access, public health, and more? Overview / explainer / live demo here: https://t.co/AHJ8s5oBuA
97 Submissions Analyzed: Imaging Interop RFI Findings
My Regulations dot gov comment analysis of 97 submissions on the Imaging Interop RFI is up and ready at https://t.co/fsO7u7hidD Quick summary article here...
Health IT Licensing Must Shift From Seats to Token Usage
Direct implications for Health IT licensing -- as HTI-5 proposes AI/RPA as a first-class means of "access"/"use" of health information.
Most Health Systems Stall Patients' HIPAA Record Rights
HIPAA guarantees patients a right to their own medical records. In practice, most health systems require patients to fill out a release-of-information form designed for a different legal purpose; justify why they want their own data; and wait. I sampled...
Deregulation Must Preserve Interoperability, AI Access, and Bulk FHIR Metrics
SMART Health IT team submitted formal comments on HTI-5. Feel free to read and borrow language. Briefly: Deregulation should not mean losing sight of whether interoperability is actually working. (HTI-5 risks eliminating the instrumentation ASTP/ONC needs to steer a successful...
AI Skill Automates Faxing Healthcare Requests in 2026
It's 2026, so... I just wrote a Claude Skill that faxes a request form to my healthcare provider.
EHR Export Docs Reviewed: Gaps, Wins, and Fixes
I analyzed the mandatory "EHI Export" documentation for essentially every certified EHR on the market. Read on for the full picture; examples of the good, the bad, and the ugly; and recommendations for ONC, vendors, and patients to improve access...
HTML Comments Reveal Vendor’s Intentional Export Method Distinction
Your human users might only read the visible content in your page, but bots read the HTML comments :-) I appreciated this nugget from my EHI Export analysis, and I have to say that I agree with "kendra/sli", they had...