Many in the healthcare industry have been eagerly awaiting the fourth iteration of FHIR 4 because future changes will now be backward compatible. "Applications that implement the normative parts of R4 ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Healthcare has undergone a number of policy and technology shifts in recent years, and at the intersection of these changes is Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, or FHIR. It's ...

Industry leaders argue that a stronger push for interoperability in healthcare will lead to a better understanding of population health and improved care delivery, where easily shareable data can be ...

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What is an application programming interface? One of the more evocative definitions in recent memory comes, of all places, from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs: "Think of an API as a server in ...

The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is emerging as a next-generation standards framework developed by HL7 for exchanging electronic health care data. The modeling capability of FHIR ...

A new health information standard is promising to speed application development and interoperability, and boost information sharing in the sector, especially on mobile platforms. It could even support ...

The healthcare industry is moving toward greater adoption of the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard. The CMS interoperability rule mandating FHIR as a technical standard by ...

Nicholas Domnisch is the CEO & Partner of EE Solutions, an NYC-based software development agency empowering innovation in digital health. At this point, no one can argue that the healthcare industry ...

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is a healthcare-specific standards framework for the same kind of RESTful APIs that underlie most internet commerce. In theory, it sounds like problem ...