Introducing Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)

Despite the widespread usage and adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), one-third of providers, payers, and care teams struggle to exchange healthcare data. A patient may go through multiple doctor visits, routine check-ups, and lab tests over time, and we should treat all this data as essential. But this data is siloed and doesn’t provide a central patient view, which thus makes the goal to catalog the entire patient’s medical journey.

Healthcare data interoperability is a step toward combining health data across various disparate systems and sites to help healthcare professionals to spend more time with their patients rather than performing healthcare data collection.

Although healthcare organizations define interoperability standards, it is not enough. While data standards have been available in the past, they have not been sufficient to achieve full interoperability. For interoperability to...