In your practice, do you have a focus on FHIR or EDI? Let's explore the real differences between #EDI and #FHIR in healthcare before getting started.

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2.  Today, the healthcare organisations are
working harder towards modernizing their
data process.
 Before, the EDI standards like HL7, ANSI X12
have widely used for data modelling and
communication purposes within the
healthcare organisation.
 But now, the new advanced data standard
FHIR, developed by HL7 International has
gained a huge adoption rate among the tech
savvy healthcare professionals.

3.  Healthcare EDI is an electronic data interchange
used in healthcare systems.
 With the help of EDI standards, healthcare
organisations can transmit data back and forth
using standardised formats specially designed for
that specific industry.
 Healthcare EDI transmits messages in the
following ways:
Peer-to-peer messaging
Value-added networks (VANs)
Mobile EDI
Cloud EDI

4.  FHIR solves the same problem that EDI
solves: in order to effectively communicate
data, there must be a standard way of
modeling that data so that all parties can
understand what the data represents.
 At its core, FHIR is simply a description of
how healthcare data can be organized and
presented so that the meaning of the data is
clear.

5.  FHIR is an API-driven data standard, while
EDI is a document-driven data standard. This
difference has two major implications:
 FHIR data payloads can be more flexible,
since they are based on API resources rather
than full EDI documents
 FHIR data transfer is simpler than EDI (FHIR
uses the same transfer technology used by
ordinary web browsers)

6.  API Resources vs EDI Documents
 API-driven technologies like FHIR can support
a wide range of communications by
combining API resources in customized ways.
 In contrast, EDI document models are
designed from the top-down to capture a
rigid set of information.

7.  API Requests vs EDI Transfer
 APIs operate using a request-response model.
This means that communicating using the
FHIR standard functions similarly to asking a
question and immediately receiving an
answer.
 In contrast, EDI requires a separate protocol
to transfer documents to remote parties.

8.  Even outside of the healthcare industry, data
movement is consistently becoming more
API-driven.
 The benefits that FHIR provides compared to
EDI are an example of this more global trend,
and they include:
 Simplicity
 Flexibility
 Enhanced Interoperability

9.  FHIR allows for more flexible data
consumption by replacing rigid EDI
documents with flexible API resources.
 Interoperability is another benefit of moving
towards API-driven communication.
 FHIR simplifies healthcare data exchange by
reducing the layers of complexity required to
package data and send it to a remote party.

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