EHR Intelligence August 8, 2018
Kate Monica

The Apple Health Records EHR data viewer leverages FHIR to enable secure patient access to health data from several sources.

The Apple Health Records EHR data viewer released in 2018 has steadily grown in popularity over the past eight months, and industry leaders already expect the feature will make waves in health IT innovation, patient engagement, and interoperability.

At the ONC 2nd Interoperability Forum, Apple Clinical and Health Informatics Lead Ricky Bloomfield, MD, offered insight into how Apple Health Records works and why it holds such promise for advancing interoperability, health data exchange, and health data use.

Most notably, the Health app leverages the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard developed by HL7 for data sharing. While FHIR is still...

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Topics: Apps, EMR / EHR, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), mHealth, Technology
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