The advanced healthcare industry has grasped the emergence of the HL7® FHIR® standard, a next-generation standard framework created by HL7. The FHIR® standard is majorly being adopted for integration projects worldwide.  Given the limitations of previous healthcare information exchange standards for non-XML segments, V2, V3, and CDA, there was a need for a standard that is simply structured, highly standardized, and easily understandable. FHIR is expected to overcome the complex limitations of current standards. FHIR is an interoperability standard for sharing and exchanging health records between organizations or health experts with the help of various software. Let’s take a look at the major FHIR applications taking healthcare to an advanced level. In this article, we explain to you the top 3 real-time applications of FHIR.

2.  The advanced healthcare industry has grasped
the emergence of the HL7® FHIR® standard,
a next-generation standard framework created
by HL7. The FHIR® standard is majorly
being adopted for integration projects
worldwide.
 Given the limitations of previous healthcare
information exchange standards for non-XML
segments, V2, V3, and CDA, there was a need
for a standard that is simply structured, highly
standardized, and easily understandable.

3.  FHIR is expected to overcome the complex
limitations of current standards.
 FHIR is an interoperability standard for
sharing and exchanging health records
between organizations or health experts
with the help of various software.
 Let’s take a look at the major FHIR
applications taking healthcare to an
advanced level. In this article, we explain
to you the top 3 real-time applications of
FHIR.

4. The rise of patient empowerment has led to more
citizens wanting access to their health records,
whilst many are monitoring their health via
fitness apps.
This, in part, has seen demand for healthcare
providers to implement Personal Health
Records (PHRs) or add data to existing
electronic health records (EHRs) from fitness
or mobile devices, such as blood pressure
monitors or ‘standalone’ tablet or phone apps.

5.  To achieve this, a new generation
lightweight technology stack within the
device is used which needs to send data to
a variety of third-party systems.
 The development time for these projects is
typically short, compared with those
traditionally associated with large
healthcare integration projects.

6. FHIR® is the first healthcare exchange standard to
be designed for the modern mobile-friendly toolset
of REST and JSON (familiar to a new generation of
APIs of Google and Amazon). It allows data to be
read, written, and queried, providing all the
flexibility to integrate a device or small PHR with a
larger PHR/EHR.
The communication needs to be
standardized so that the consumer
can connect to different vendors’
PHR and EHR systems according to
their situation and location.

7. FHIR®’s simplicity of use means a
development team from the PHR or device
community can use it rapidly, without needing
to become experts in EHRs or health
communication protocols.
FHIR applications have also standardized the use of
well-known security and log-on standards in a health
records environment. This prevents each project
from needing to reinvent this layer, potentially with
design flaws.
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8.  One of the topmost FHIR applications is
sharing healthcare documents such as lab
results, imaging, and radiology scans, medical
prescriptions can easily improve patient
outcomes.
 To enjoy all these benefits healthcare
document sharing system is important and is
often based on IHE XDS standards.
But this standard has no direct support for
mobile applications or modern REST
interfaces, therefore limiting mobile
access to these vital documents.

9.  IHE has now integrated FHIR® with XDS, to
produce MHD (Mobile Health Documents)
profile which allows mobile devices, and other
resource-constrained systems, to use MHD to
access an XDS Repository.
 This has been built on top of common FHIR®
resources that provide ways to create, store
and reference documents of all kinds, for use
with or without XDS/MHD.

10. Beyond the capabilities of sharing
traditional documents (such as PDFs),
FHIR® also provides structured clinical
document functionality for expressing all
document-based uses cases, carrying on
from and compatible with the highly
successful HL7 CDA standard.

11. As healthcare digitization continues to mature,
the role of decision support is becoming more
prevalent in everyday clinical environments.
A key benefit of computerized structured medical
records is the ability to provide automated expert
input to the business process (e.g. drug interaction
checking). Despite being widely deployed, the
functionality and knowledge bases may be limited
to use with one system or vendor.
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12.  FHIR® has support for common decision
support interactions, between separate
systems, and can expose the necessary
analysis data in a standard format.
 This enables collaboration and plug-and-
play of decision support providers and
clients.

13.  The FHIR standard will benefit healthcare
providers and patients, as it improves
access to a more complete, higher quality
electronic health record by being able to
include data from sources like laboratory
results.
 The FHIR API makes it easier for
developers and healthcare providers in
improving healthcare delivery from
ambulatory and inpatient care to post-
acute and home care.

14. The implementation of FHIR creates innovative
ways for better interoperability by opening new
avenues in mobile health apps.
Today, most healthcare organizations are showing
interest in adapting new healthcare technologies to
modernize their practice workflow.
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