FHIR Standard Adoption in U.S. at Turning Point

02 Oct FHIR Standard Adoption in U.S. at Turning Point

Source: HealthDataManagement.com

The adoption of HL7’s emerging Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard for sharing electronic medical information has reached critical mass.

That’s the assessment of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

“New analysis shows that the United States might be at a turning point when it comes to the adoption and implementation of (FHIR),” according to the agency. “Using CMS and ONC data, we analyzed how health IT developers used FHIR to meet 2015 Edition certification requirements. Additionally, we assessed how hospitals and clinicians’ access to 2015 Edition certified-APIs vary across the U.S.”

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