Among other things, the FHIR-based model led to 50% drop in the number of alerts needed to assess patient mortality, resulting in fewer false positives.

Lastly, FHIR alone will not lead to widespread disruption of the healthcare IT space. The business model and value network of FHIR and HL7 make it impossible for the standard to go beyond its mandate.

HAPI-FHIR supports the following tools: (1) parser and encoder to convert between the source data model and FHIR-based data model, and (2) communicate between the client application and server.

Interoperability on FHIR With personal kudos to Grahame Grieve, the Australian polymath who imagined how this could all work over a decade ago, FHIR sits as a healthcare data model layer on the ...

On January 2, Health Level Seven debuted the new version of its interoperability specification. Many CIOs and technologists in healthcare have been awaiting the fourth iteration of the Fast Healthcare ...

SMART-on-FHIR is the inflection point for driving the shift to value-based care. The reason: It offers another pathway to integration in which user experiences, not just discrete data, are shared ...

The Direct standard, FHIR, and cloud fax are the three top contenders for eliminating paper-based information sharing in healthcare. As you might expect, each has strong use cases and challenges.

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is a healthcare-specific standards framework for the same kind of RESTful APIs that underlie most internet commerce.

As FHIR adoption accelerates, the nonprofit organization hopes to create a framework for sustainable growth.