AHIMA September 6, 2022
David Lareau

Combined with the widespread adoption of the Fast Health Interoperability Resource (FHIR) standard, the 21st Century Cures Act and Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) will soon drive interoperability of health information from the enterprise to the patient. These two regulations, and the FHIR standard, will effectively serve as the “pipes” to connect the points where healthcare information is acquired and where it is eventually accessed and used.

FHIR defines a basic structure for what goes into the pipes but still enables the sending and receiving of nearly any information encountered in a medical setting: codes from various terminologies and code sets, free-text narratives, images, operative notes, discharge reports, patient summaries and problem lists, lab results, orders, and other...

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