FedTech January 19, 2023
The Department of Defense, among others, is already using the data standard to streamline health information exchange, expedite scientific discoveries and ensure health equity.
The best way to ensure electronic health record systems can share data interoperably is for industry to adopt the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard, or FHIR, say federal officials.
While the deployment of a single, consolidated electronic health record, called the Military Health System GENESIS, has the Department of Defense on a path to interoperability, the FHIR data standard that serves as its backbone isn’t congressionally mandated.
FHIR application programming interfaces streamline health information exchange by standardizing data and eliminating the need for sharing agreements, which is why the government required certified EHR vendors...
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