Healthcare Innovation February 13, 2025
The nonprofit healthcare interoperability standards organization HL7 is seeking help to define and establish a new FHIR Accelerator implementation community focusing on health device interoperability.
The new community will address use cases involving the highest acuity, most complex clinical care areas such as hospital operating rooms and intensive care units, as well as personal health and wellness devices and applications that are used by individuals in their homes.
“For many years, the lack of consensus standards for the exchange of device data has been a tremendous burden on the delivery of patient care,” said Charles Jaffe, M.D., Ph.D., HL7 International chief executive officer, in a statement. “With the formation of this newest device interoperability implementation community, it...