The only way to prevent incumbent data holders from hijacking FHIR is to treat patient access to the FHIR API as a civil rights issue. HIPAA gives patients a right of access. It's now up to OCR t...
Thanks everyone for joining in on the conversation. Adrian, I'd love to hear your thoughts on how we can prevent the data holders from hijacking FHIR. Also, I can see how it's better from a secur...
Let's not forget the push for Open APIs is not unique to the US, on my side of the pond NHS England has defined an "Open API Architecture policy" (http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/201...
FHIR is a simplification of the HL7v3 standard that does help vendors understand and implement data exchange. It allows for atomic data transactions and is core to the CommonWell Alliance as the ...
FHIR is completely different from previous standards because it's not entirely controlled by the healthcare industry. Properly managed, it will solve the interoperability problem with privacy and...
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Rene, I'm still trying to figure out if the trend you mention is going to stick or not. I'm hopeful that it will, but I can see some reasons why it could be hijacked. I'm still digging into wheth...
To me FHIR is en evolutionary standard, but not in and of itself a game changer. The question to me is: are we 9all of us, the industry, the healthcare providers) able an willing to have a new ty...