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Can You Trust Your Data?

Getting to Computable Data

2025 In Review with Duncan Weatherston

The Expert Showcase: People Who Power CMS Transformation

Will Your MY2025 PriorAuth Metrics Be Publicly Accessible by March 2026?

How Payers Are Advancing on CMS-0057-F with Smile

Why Waiting Is Too Late for Digital HEDIS®

Smile Digital Health Pledges Foundational Technology Support to Power the CMS Health Tech Ecosystem

Why the STARS are Falling & How to Course-Correct

8 Steps Innovative Payers are Taking to Transition to Digital HEDIS®

Does Your Digital Prior Authorization Solution Serve All Providers?

Smile Digital Health Maintains Key Certifications in Security, Privacy, and Compliance

How to Evaluate a Vendor for Digital HEDIS® Measures

The Cost of Low HEDIS Scores, and How to Improve Them

The End of Traditional HEDIS® Is Coming: What Payers Need to Know

Smile Digital Health is the First to Achieve NCQA’s Digital HEDIS Validation

Smile Digital Health Reinforces Commitment to Simplifying Prior Authorization for Millions of Americans

Understanding the Shift to Digital HEDIS®: Key Terms and Concepts

From Mandates to Momentum— a Payer Focused Video Series

Are You Ready for CMS-0057-F?

Beyond Compliance: Scale Clinical Intelligence with FHIR® & CQL

Interoperability in Healthcare: More Than Just Data Exchange

Fixing Systemic Prior Authorization Denials

Smile Digital Health Welcomes West Coast Informatics as a Certified Technology Partner, Strengthening FHIR-Centric Healthcare Interoperability

Smile Digital Health Secures $15 Million in Credit Financing with FirePower Capital to Accelerate Growth and Innovation in Health Data Solutions

Smile Digital Health Establishes the Smile dQM Innovation Program to Support the Digitization of HEDIS® Scores

Smile Digital Health Gets ISO 27017 Certified

Smile Digital Health Joins NCQA’s Digital Content Services Early Adopters Program to Support the Digitization of HEDIS Scores

Smile Completes Drummond Group’s Payer & Patient Access FHIR® Recertification

Smile Digital Health Named in New Gartner® Report

Smile Digital Health Achieves HITRUST Risk-Based, 2-year Certification

Smile Digital Health Completes SOC 2® Type 2 Examination 2024

Newly launched! CDA Exchange+ Unifies Patient Data for Better Accessibility and Sharing

Your Data Transformation Roadmap

Smile Has You Covered from A to Zed

VA TRM Approved: Smile Health Data Fabric

Playing with FHIR

Smile Digital Health Announced as One of Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 and Fast 500 Program Winners

FHIR-Start a Revolution in Healthcare Technology

Elevating Quality Measures with FHIR® & CQL

All Smiles at HLTH

Smile Digital Health places No. 41 on The Globe and Mail's fifth-annual ranking of Canada's Top Growing Companies

Smile Digital Health Named in New Gartner® Report

A Call For True Community Collaboration & Radical Interoperability

An End of Summer Reflection on IHD

MiHIN Modernizes & FHIR’s Up Its Health Information Exchange with Smile

Smile! It’s a Blog about Security, Compliance & Risk Management

Building Blocks for Data Transformation

A Revival of The International Patient Summary (IPS)

Smile Digital Health Achieves ISO 27018 Certification

How Addressing Interoperability Concerns Can Improve Your Bottom Line

HL7 FHIR Implementation: DIY vs. Smile’s Health Data Fabric

Managed Services Calculator DIY vs Smile Offering

Feature Rich Quarterly Release

Smile Digital Health and HealthLX Announce Partnership and Provide Two Innovative FHIR Solutions

HAPI FHIR and Smile CDR Xenon May Post Release Webinar

Solving Interoperability Challenges With Managed Services

MegaScale - Break the Data Ceiling

HITRUST Recognizes Smile - 2023 Award for Maintaining the Highest Information Security and Privacy Standards

Smile at Infoway’s Projectathon

The Intelligent Health Data Symposium Goes Hybrid

Independent Research Shows How Interoperability Platforms and Partners Unlock True Innovation

BDR Solutions and Smile Digital Health Partner for Federal Health Data Platform Operations

Smile Digital Health Now Available on AWS GovCloud (US) Region

HAPI FHIR and Smile CDR Wizard Post Release Webinar

Harnessing the Real Power of Data Interoperability

Smile Digital Health Closes $30 Million in Series B Funding to Progress Innovation as World-Leading Health Data Fabric

Smile Digital Health Achieves (g)(10) Certification

Shane McNamee of Smile Digital Health Named 2023 FedHealthIT100 Award Recipient

How Health Plans Are Leveraging Interoperability Solutions to Modernize Data

HAPI FHIR and Smile CDR Vishwa Release Webinar

Smile Digital Health Recognized as a 2022 Deloitte Technology Fast 50™ and North America Technology Fast 500™ Company

Smile Digital Health Expands Product Offering with Alphora Acquisition

Weaving a Data Fabric

Statement on CVE-2022-42889 (Commons Text)

True Cost of Non-Compliance with CMS Interoperability Rules

Value-Based Care: HandBook of Acronyms

Smile Digital Health and AWS Work Together to Pursue Better Health Outcomes

An Honest Assessment for Providers of NSA Implementation

Work SMARTer, Not Harder with FHIR

Smile CDR Rebrands to Smile Digital Health

Smile CDR places No. 41 on The Globe and Mail's fourth-annual ranking of Canada's Top Growing Companies.

How CDS Hooks Will Break Down Data Silos in Healthcare

Understanding Value of FHIR®

Digital Transformation in the Payer Market

Smile Digital Health Welcomes Erin Prymas as New Chief Revenue Officer | Smile Digital Health

Smile CDR Receives U.S. Health Interoperability Standards Certification for Patient Clinical Data

HAPI FHIR and Smile CDR Unicorn Release Webinar

Smile Digital Health Appoints George Rollins as President

So Many Options, but What to Choose?

Open Standards Bring Healthcare Out of the Stone Age

Reaching to the Stars

Astrata and Smile Digital Health NCQA Certification

Microsoft Canada Recognizes Smile Digital Health As Winner of the 2022 ISV Breakthrough Partner Impact Award

Detecting and Mitigating Human Trafficking in Emergency Services

The Digital Transformation

Healing an Industry

Smile Digital Health Certified by Health Information Trust Alliance

Diameter Health and Smile CDR Announce Partnership to Provide Best-of-Breed FHIR Solutions

Powering Optimized Medication Management with an HL7 ® FHIR ® Standard

Intelligent Health Data Symposium

HAPI FHIR and Smile CDR Tanuki Release Webinar

Achieving Drug Data Interoperability with FHIR

Collaboration between Smile CDR, MedX and Blanc Labs to Advance Global Evolution of Teledermatology

A Mutual Burden for Providers and Payers and How Interoperability Can Facilitate Change

The Barriers to Evidence-Based Medication Management

Importance of Interoperability During COVID-19

Understanding Key Provisions of the No Surprises Act

Striving for Better Medication Management

Smile CDR Statement on Spring4Shell Vulnerability | Smile Digital Health

Smile CDR Achieves Red Hat OpenShift Operator Certification to Expand Use Across the Hybrid Cloud

NSA Glossary of Terms

Understanding the Implications of The No Surprises Act

The Urgent Need for HL7® FHIR® Adoption

Smile CDR's Leading Interoperability Solutions Now Available on Amazon Web Services

HAPI FHIR and Smile CDR Sojourner Release Webinar

Smile CDR Announces 2022 Intelligent Health Data Symposium

Why the CMS Prior Authorization Rule Is a Win for Providers and Payers

Smile CDR Receives Quality Management Certification for Flagship Product

Smile CDR Provider Directory Certification Affirms End-to-End Functionality to Support U.S. Health Interoperability Standards

A Statement on Log4shell (CVE-2021-44228)

4medica & Smile Partner to Improve Health Data Quality

Smile CDR Welcomes Shane McNamee, MD

HAPI FHIR and Smile CDR Raccoon Release Webinar

Smile CDR Named One of Canada’s Companies-to-Watch in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50™ Program

What EHR Vendors Don't Want You to Know About FHIR

Smile Digital Health Launches appSphere

Be Strategic or Beware.

Making Sense of the Final Payer-to-Payer Rules for Data Exchange

Smile CDR Announces Partnership with IDENTOS to Improve Patient Centricity and Better Sharing of Health Information

Smile Digital Health Achieves ISO/IEC 27001 Certification - Information Security Management

Changing Consumer Expectations Will Shape the Healthcare Sector

Smile CDR Finalizes Twenty U.S. Payers’ Compliance with CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule

HAPI FHIR 5.5.0 and Smile CDR 2021.08.R01 Quasar Release Webinar

Smile CDR Closes $20 Million in Series A Funding to Drive New Innovations in Clinical Data Management

Astrata and Smile CDR Digital Quality Measurement Engine

Smile CDR is the First Company to Receive Certification of Compliance with U.S. Health Interoperability Standards

Clinical Data Sharing Improves Patient Safety

How Smile Digital Health is Enabling the Internet of Health

Smile CDR 2021.05.R01 and HAPI FHIR 5.4.0 (Pangolin) Quarterly Product Release Webinar

Payer and Provider Interoperability with FHIR Can Improve Prior Authorization—to Everyone’s Benefit

Why We Need to Build the Internet of Health

Avoid Obsolescence as Healthcare Technology Advances

How Information Blocking Hurts Health Systems and How to Fix It

The Internet of Health: Why Collaboration Matters

FHIR and the Promise of Interoperability

Value-Based Care, Digital Capabilities and COVID-19

Smile CDR Now Available Worldwide in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Quarterly Product Release Webinar - February 2021

IDC MarketScape Positions Smile CDR as Leader in Payers Vendor Assessment

Introducing Smile Digital Health's First-Ever Annual User Symposium!

Payers’ Need for Accurate and Timely Healthcare Data Far Exceeds CMS Compliance

FHIR 101: Development and Future as the Global Standard

Canada, UK Providers Seize Apple Health Records Opportunity

HAPI Holidays from the Smile Team

Introducing the HAPI FHIR Pandemic Rapid Response Toolkit: Customizable, Open Source Apps for Clinicians, Developers, and Public Health Authorities

Quarterly Product Release Webinar - November 2020

Join us at FHIR North

Are your Payer CDI Projects stuck between the Peak of Inflated Expectations and the Trough of Disillusionment?

Smile Digital Health Selected by Association for Community Affiliated Plans (ACAP) as a Preferred Vendor

Time is NOT on Your Side: Why Payers Need to Select Their Interoperability Vendor Without Delay

Announcing HAPI FHIR EMPI

Smile CDR 2020.08.R01 and HAPI FHIR 5.1.0 and (Manticore) Release Webinar

HAPI FHIR and Smile CDR August 2020 (Manticore) Release Webinar

Kafka Integration Testing: Partition Assignment

TIBCO & Smile Digital Health Whitepaper: Payer Interoperability Rules and Your Digital Transformation

HAPI FHIR 5.0.0 and Smile CDR 2020.05.R01 (Labrador) Release Webinar

HAPI FHIR and Smile CDR May 2020 (Labrador) Release Webinar

Webinar: FHIR Implementation Strategies for Payers

Open Source COVID-19 Toolkit

Smile Digital Health Joins Perspecta’s HealthConcourse!

Trisotech Leverages Smile Digital Health to Drive Sharable Clinical Pathways

Verto uses Smile Digital Health to Achieve Data Integration and Ransomware Resiliency

Smile Digital Health Extends Continuum Health’s Powerful BI Solution for Healthcare with FHIR

Introducing FHIRBall: The FHIR Business Alliance

US Government Lights FHIR Under Payers

HAPI FHIR and Smile CDR Feb 2020 (Koala) Release Webinar

Smile CDR at HIMSS20

HAPI FHIR Site Relaunch!

The Pros and Cons of Spring SmartLifecycle

Smile CDR at WEDI Winter Conference

HAPI FHIR and Smile CDR Nov 2019 (Jitterbug) New Release Webinar

HAPI FHIR and Smile CDR Nov 2019 (Jitterbug) New Release Webinar

It’s All About Bringing Data to the Next Level

FHIR DevDays Europe 2019

Smile at HLTH 2019

Tibco and Smile Team Up!

IDENTOS and Smile Team Up for Next Generation Trusted Health Data Access

Smile Digital Health in Norway with Egde Consulting!

Smile CDR @ 2019 HIMSS Ontario Health IT Conference

Welcoming Ken Stevens to the Smile team!

Smile CDR at HL7 Working Group Meeting & FHIR Connectathon in Atlanta

Smile CDR at FHIR North

HAPI FHIR and Smile CDR Product Release Webinar

HAPI FHIR and Smile CDR Aug 2019 (Igloo) New Release Webinar

HAPI FHIR 3.8.0 and Smile CDR 2019.05.R01 Release Webinar

HAPI FHIR and Smile CDR Release Webinar May 2019

CANet accelerates cardiac arrhythmia research with Smile Digital Health!

Motorcycle award for James

Smile Digital Health teams up with Red Hat