Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is a healthcare-specific standards framework for the same kind of RESTful APIs that underlie most internet commerce. In theory, it sounds like problem ...

As most hospital executives know, keeping up with the zillions of standards and technology specifications getting introduced or refined can take hours. Add in time spent making sure technology is in ...

The list of billion-dollar companies turned healthcare disruptors in 2018 continues to grow. Alphabet recently joined the likes of Apple, Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JP Morgan Chase, and Walmart to ...

Choosing the right technology partners is critical to the success of any organization, but it can be challenging to get all stakeholders to agree on a common solution. With the expanding role of ...

Consumer data, clinical data, siloed streams of duplicate and unique data from varying sources – that’s the complex world today’s healthcare systems are trying to effectively navigate in order to ...

Once again this year, HL7's FHIR specification was a hot topic at HIMSS17, a burning issue discussed ardently across the show floor. (Our apologies, but heat- and flame-related puns seem to be ...

The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource, or FHIR (pronounced ‘fire’), is a new term in healthcare that’s witnessing growing interest and spreading almost like fire. FHIR is the latest standard ...

The health IT industry has been buzzing about FHIR (or fast healthcare interoperability resources -- pronounced “fire”) since it was introduced by Health Level Seven (HL7) as a proposed ...

Former ONC chief Don Rucker and HL7 are championing a new form of healthcare IT interoperability. Newly maturing standards for healthcare data interoperability will make providers more accountable to ...

On January 2, Health Level Seven debuted the new version of its interoperability specification. Many CIOs and technologists in healthcare have been awaiting the fourth iteration of the Fast Healthcare ...