The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) set of data standards and specifications enables healthcare organizations and systems to share patient health information (PHI) securely, and it helps anonymize patient data where appropriate. Often this data is on-prem in the patient’s electronic health record or a private cloud.
FHIR enables this data to be surfaced to public clouds such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle, and SAP, where it can be exchanged in a secure way. There are local, private cloud, and public cloud implementation options for deploying FHIR. Once deployed, FHIR can be used to view, convert, import, and export data.
The adoption of FHIR on a global scale is growing. The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed support for FHIR as a key standard for healthcare data exchange and interoperability and recognizes the potential of FHIR to improve health outcomes and support the delivery of high-quality, patient-centered care globally.
The United States has been a leader in FHIR adoption. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology promotes FHIR as a key component of its interoperability roadmap. Many healthcare organizations in the U.S. are already using FHIR to exchange healthcare data, which is essential for delivering high-quality, coordinated care, and enabling research and clinical trials on a global scale.
FHIR is a flexible and extensible standard, which means that it can be adapted to meet the needs of different healthcare use cases. As more countries adopt FHIR, the consistent, standards-based healthcare datasets will grow, and this, in turn, will foster global collaboration on health. The standard will empower data scientists to generate more inclusive and accurate AI models to increase the quality of care.
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