FHIR V/s Blockchain

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FHIR V/s Blockchain

• Understanding
• The Reality

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Introduction

• In todays digital world, health data management
  remains to be one of the ongoing challenges
  worldwide.
• The healthcare data transmission has lagged
  behind the trend due to its complexity and
  sensitivity. This limits the healthcare
  providers ability to coordinate care, perform
  data analytics, and cost-effectively integrate IT
  environments.

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Introduction (cont..)

• The question now becomes which places on the top
  in terms of benefits among these two data
  integration systems- FHIR and blockchain.
• This article lets you understand the real
  benefits of FHIR and blockchain.

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FHIR V/s Blockchain

• First, well discuss Fast Healthcare
  Interoperability Resources (FHIR)- a low-cost
  integration standard built on advanced
  technologies and based on the expectations of
  todays health integration layers.
• The main aim of the development of FHIR is to
  normalize and ease out the exchange of healthcare
  data between healthcare providers to share
  patient data ease, even when the providers are
  using different software systems for data sharing.

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FHIR V/s Blockchain (cont..)

• Does blockchain remains to be effective to
  support health data sharing?
• Of course, blockchain can facilitate the transfer
  of patient health records among various health
  systems in a secure and easy to use manner, lower
  transaction expenses, and even support medical
  tourism.

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DATA SHARING
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1. Performance Level

• FHIR messages are conveyed quicker, having a huge
  advantage while conveying new data to a non-local
  system.
• Blockchain solutions have to reserve complete
  data locally, however, new exchanges can require
  some time (depending on the technology) to work
  through finalization and distribution.

RELATED ROLE OF FHIR IN INTEROPERABILITY
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2. Synchronizing

• FHIR assists registries with synchronizing
  themselves yet cant work beyond messages.
• Blockchain solutions can make synchronized
  registries in different locations.

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3. Persistence

• FHIR goes about as an assortment of transient
  messages that are liable for moving data between
  persistent data stores or for on-request use.
• Blockchain continually stores information, making
  it an unchanging record of data as well as the
  messages that transform it.

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FHIR Role In Interoperability

• FHIR creates a common language where advanced
  systems can easily connect and share data.
• Many of the big tech industries like Microsoft,
  Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle are seeing the
  benefits and stated that theyll leverage FHIR in
  future health technology endeavors to unlock the
  potential of healthcare data, to deliver better
  outcomes at a lower cost.

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FHIR Role In Interoperability (cont..)

• Apple is using FHIR to enable patients to
  aggregate their health records from various
  institutions into one centralized place in their
  Health app.
• This allows patients to bring their health
  information from one system to another if the
  health system supports Apples Health app.

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FHIR Role In Interoperability (cont..)

• FHIR provides data formats, and an application
  programming interface (API) to connect health
  information across different health systems and
  benefits healthcare institutions, physicians, app
  developers in the following ways.
• 1. Seamless data flow between healthcare
  organizations
• 2. Easy implementation
• 3. Provides fast healthcare delivery with secure
  real-time access to quality data

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FHIR Role In Interoperability (cont..)

• 4. Structures data for automated clinical support
• 5. Reduces burden for reporting quality measures
• 6. Personal health information (PHI) plays a
  great role in care decisions.
• By integrating it into medical records healthcare
  providers can easily leverage real-time data, PHI
  stored in devices over time as well as
  information in an EHR.

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INTEROPERABILITY
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FHIR Blockchain Working Together

• When FHIR is accompanied by blockchain, you could
  see a more consumer-centric database. This would
  mean that
• No need for the vendor-specific platform
  Consumers dont need to select a vendor specific
  platform to house their information. In the same
  way, the healthcare organizations dont need to
  decide who theyre going to partner with.

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FHIR Blockchain Working Together (cont..)

• Identities are verified to be accurate In
  todays healthcare system, the entries of
  duplicate identities of the same individual
  within a health system has increased. With
  blockchain, its possible to create a single
  identifier for everyone, even if their
  information is under different names with
  different organizations or there are duplicate
  records in a system.

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FHIR Blockchain Working Together (cont..)

• Improved security of patient data Unlike FHIR
  which depends on external encryption to secure
  data, blockchain is inherently secure because of
  the way the data is passed through the platform
  making security breaches of patient data less
  likely.

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FHIR Blockchain Working Together (cont..)

• Accuracy of health information is
  ensured Records cant be manipulated but can be
  continually updated, ultimately providing the
  most comprehensive picture of an individuals
  health. This will increase data integrity and
  ensure that even though many people may be
  leveraging this information it cant be changed.

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FHIR Blockchain Working Together (cont..)

• Correct Access To Medical Record With
  blockchain, a consumer could consent to provide
  access to their medical data with a given
  provider. Then their private key which is their
  medical record number across all organizations
  ensures that the data attached to a given patient
  is only carried by that patient, thus removing
  the human error of connecting medical records to
  the correct individual.

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Final Thoughts

• Healthcare organizations must revise their plans
  before investing in future technologies and
  ensure that the new technology uses FHIR.
• This is the right time for every healthcare
  organization to realize the real benefits of
  interoperability. While it takes some time to
  make a good decision, the benefits of
  interoperability that leverages both FHIR and
  blockchain advances are set to turn into a
  central factor in future healthcare programs.

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