By now, you probably heard of the HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR—pronounced “fire”) standard. It has gotten a lot of attention in recent months as the shiny new object in healthcare interoperability standards. Who would have thought a data standard would generate so much fervor? If you haven’t heard about it, FHIR enables systems to quickly set up interoperability points using one common and relatively easy to understand specification. That’s a nice, high level description, but what really is FHIR, what can it do for healthcare, and how is Infor at the forefront of this effort?
New applications and use cases in healthcare emerge nearly every day and most all of them are powered by data. Simple, efficient, and secure access to this data is vital in order to realize the true benefit of your healthcare application ecosystem. FHIR provides a mechanism for systems to quickly and effectively communicate the data needed. Without getting too technical, FHIR is based on the very protocols and patterns that the Internet is built upon and does so in a way that enables all kinds of health and healthcare related apps to more readily connect to one another. This includes applications across the healthcare spectrum from the traditional monolithic EHR system all the way to the consumer focused single purpose mobile app. It can also support an unbounded array of use cases from traditional clinical care to analytics and population health management to direct consumer engagement and empowerment. It enables system developers to create a platform in which data can flow much more easily, and securely, beyond the traditional healthcare settings and systems.
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