Simplifying Health Data Exchange
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is a leading draft standard in healthcare today, which uses logical and theoretical models to make healthcare data exchange between healthcare applications consistent, easy to implement, and rigorous.
WHAT DOES IT TRY TO SOLVE?
FHIR aims to make the health data exchange process less complex to developers, while maintaining high semantic depth or the ability to collect large amounts of data.
HOW DOES IT SOLVE THE PROBLEM?
FHIR supports the exchange for data, messages, services, and RESTful API. It builds a set of resources or exchangeable content that satisfy the majority of common use cases in healthcare interoperability. FHIR’s principle is to apply standards that will only cover 80% of what is needed in the scenario. The rest of the 20 % will be allotted for additional demands and other extensions.
