HIT Infrastructure August 29, 2018
Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and others could significantly impact how EHR vendors approach the FHIR API standard and interoperability.
Earlier this month Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce announced their intent to jointly commit “to removing barriers for the adoption of technologies for healthcare interoperability, particularly those that are enabled through the cloud and AI.”
This pledge could reshape how healthcare organizations share data and interact with interoperability standards, according to Redox Senior Developer Nick Hatt.
“The biggest take away from this pledge for me is that all these tech companies are going to level-set and agree to not compete on integration,” Hatt told HITInfrastructure.com. “They’re all trying to sell different kinds of AI and cloud services to help healthcare...