FHIR and its Impact on Healthcare Data Management
One of the major issues the healthcare industry face is the lack of interoperability among the healthcare systems to exchange and access information. This has kept not just the patients from accessing the required care but also, the healthcare providers and vendors from providing the appropriate care. Thus, to solve this challenge and many more like it FHIR to facilitates interoperability between legacy healthcare systems, and allows third-party application developers to provide medical applications which can be easily integrated into existing systems. What is FHIR? FHIR stands for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources , a standard for exchanging health information electronically. Its resources can be combined and extended to support various use cases and scenarios, such as clinical care, research, public health, billing, etc. It is based on the concept of resources, which are modular and reusable components that represent different aspects of health data, such as patients,...