Healthcare IT News October 17, 2018
Grahame Grieve

HL7 is close to publishing the fourth milestone release of the FHIR standard at a time of increasing uptake that the US Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT recently said could soon approach critical mass. These are exciting times.

In a blog post, ONC’s Steven Posnack and Wes Barker wrote that the US “might be at a turning point when it comes to the adoption and implementation” of HL7’s FHIR standard, supercharged no doubt by the integration of the standard by mammoth companies such as Apple.

But there is still much to be done both here and internationally to get health systems sharing patient information and fuelling quality care – which is what our work is all about.

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