FHIR creator stresses the importance of patient empowerment at Rewired

The creator of Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) has told the Digital Health Rewired audience the project is pivoted around empowering the patient.

In his morning keynote, which opened day one of Rewired (March 15), Grahame Grieve spoke about how FHIR, which is the leading healthcare data exchange standard of the future, is “very much patient focused”.

“A key thing is the patient focus – to empower the patient and improve their lives – those things are not always the same but they are very tightly related,” he added.

Grieve, who has a background in laboratory medicine and software vendor development, also highlighted a key focus around the world at the moment is to “get data into...