Certification
Certification for Health Data Portability
The Ministry of Health published for public comments a new program aimed at setting the foundations for the implementation of FHIR standard interoperability in the Israeli healthcare system (Data Portability Certification Program).
Portable Data
The certification Program defines what is “Portable Data”.Data which all organizations in the health system must be able to share in a standard and high-quality format.
Funding Model
The program is accompanied by a funding model (support test) intended for HMOs, general hospitals, geriatric, psychiatric, and rehabilitation hospitals, with the aim of helping organizations meet the certification process requirements.
Technological Infrastructure
The program defines the requirements for establishing the technological infrastructure for managing and transferring data, and the testing processes that will allow organizations themselves and the Ministry of Health to ensure that the data is indeed available, of high quality, and can be shared according to the defined standards.
Documentation
The Certification Program includes professional documents whose purpose is to clarify the process requirements, and a funding model supporting their implementation, intended for HMOs, general hospitals, geriatric, psychiatric, and rehabilitation hospitals.
All documents are now published for public comments:
Comments can be sent on drafts of the various documents, all or some of them, to the Digital Health Department: digital-health@MOH.GOV.IL