Top 3 Real Time FHIR Applications In Healthcare

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Top 3 Real Time FHIR Applications In Healthcare

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introduction

• 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.

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Introduction (cont..)

• 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.
• Lets 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.

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1. Personal Health Record

• 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.
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Personal Health Record (cont..)

• 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.

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The role of HL7 FHIR
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.

• 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.

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The role of HL7 FHIR (cont..)

• FHIRs 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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2. Healthcare Document sharing

• 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.
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The role of HL7 FHIR

• 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.

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The role of HL7 FHIR (cont..)

• 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.

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3. Clinical Decision support

• 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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SUPPORT SYSTEM
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The role of HL7 FHIR

• 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.

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summary

• 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.

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Getting started with CapMinds HL7 FHIR services

• 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.

With this in mind, CapMinds offers you the best
HL7 FHIR SMART integration services and helps you
to help the actual results you need.
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