9 Proven Implementation Benefits of FHIR

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Introduction

• FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources)
  is a standard for exchanging healthcare
  information electronically and combines the best
  features from HL7 v2, HL7 v3, and CDA, while also
  adding several significant improvements over
  previous standards.
• In this article, we will look at the development
  of FHIR and the common benefits of FHIR for
  healthcare providers and developers.

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What is the reason behind the development of FHIR?

• The main aim of FHIR is to normalize and ease out
  the exchange of healthcare data between
  healthcare administrators, providers, and
  professionals to share patient data in an easy
  and stress-free way, even when the providers are
  using different software systems.

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A quick guide to FHIR advantages Why you need to
make use of it?

• Easy and hassle-free integration and
  implementation
• FHIR makes data to be easily accessible and in a
  readable format thereby increasing the healthcare
  delivery speed.
• Structures and standardizes the data for
  machine-based processing and other automated
  clinical support.
• FHIR eliminates the working time with the
  document-based data exchange system

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1 Data sharing made simple with FHIR

• With FHIR, every resource is linked with a unique
  identifier.
• Just by assigning standard URLs for different
  packets of data, FHIR eliminates and cuts down
  the long process of exchanging data back and
  forth between systems.

Quite similar to be like the URLs help to look
out for specific web pages, no matter which web
browser or device you have been using, FHIR makes
it feasible and easy to get the access to right
set of data from any device or an application.
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2 Developer friendly

• Is FHIR is developer-friendly? Of course YES!
  FHIR employs many popular, modern web
  technologies that developers are already familiar
  with such as HTTPS, REST, XML, JSON, ATOM, and
  OAuth.

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3 The specification is free for use

• Not like other HL7 standards, which were not
  freely available until 2013, the specifications
  for FHIR are 100 accessible without a login or
  any restrictions.

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4 Supports RESTful architecture

• The REST APIs make sharing simpler and easier,
  which takes only less time to onboard a partner
  in information exchange.
• REST APIs additionally provide tools to easily
  communicate with the data source in different
  ways such as GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE are all
  potential moves that can be taken on resources.

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5 Fast and easy to Implement

• HL7 claims that developers can have a simple
  interface up and running in just a single day.
  With the help of the best integration engine,
  this can be done even faster.

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6 Cost savings approach

• Since FHIR makes use of various well-known web
  technologies such as REST, the skills required to
  develop an application with FHIR is a very basic
  thing like it is directly transferable from
  anyone working in website or web app development.
  
• So the process of building a team will be much
  easier and it wont cost more.

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7 The concept of resources

• FHIR is built upon the concept of resources
  the basic units of interoperability which are
  used as building blocks that can be incorporated
  in existing systems to try to resolve clinical,
  administrative and infrastructural problems in
  healthcare.
• The resources must have a common definition and
  method of representation, a common set of
  metadata, and a human-readable part. The various
  categories of resources include Clinical,
  Workflow, Conformance, Identification, Financial,
  and Infrastructure.

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8 FHIR suits well for mobile

• FHIR utilizes many new technologies that mobile
  devices readily and easily support such as HTTP
  REST and JSON. This results in a vast increase in
  the development of numerous mobile health
  applications and devices.

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9 FHIR experts community

• FHIR is an open-source standard with a community
  of experts who offer the best solutions for
  complex problems. If you have any queries related
  to FHIR implementation, the expert team will
  clarify your issues in a matter of hours,
  sometimes even minutes.

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How FHIR benefits app developers?

• Once the application is developed with FHIR
  means, then it can be launched across many health
  systems. So, the patients from different health
  systems can use a consumer single app, or
  providers can use a business app running within
  the EHR with minimal modifications.

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How FHIR benefits app developers? (cont..)

• Additionally, with the help of FHIR, SMART, and
  the new rules in Meaningful Use 3, patients are
  in control of their data. As discussed above,
  FHIR is developer-friendly as they implement
  RESTful APIs and OAuth2 just like most other APIs
  developers are familiar with.

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Benefits of FHIR for health systems and providers

• The most important benefit of FHIR is that the
  health systems and providers gain a method to
  launch applications from right within their EHR.
• And those applications can be easily built by
  external developers is a more scalable manner
  without specific implementations or custom
  integrations for each organization.

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Benefits of FHIR for health systems and providers
(cont..)

• FHIR plays a great and big role in healthcare
  interoperability. Because with FHIR, its very
  easy to transmit only the necessary and important
  pieces of data.
• This makes FHIR special and more manageable when
  you compare FHIR to the previous CDA format
  which contained the complete patient history.

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INTEROPERABILITY
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Benefits of FHIR to patients

• With the previous standards, if the patients wish
  to have a look at their healthcare data and
  reports, they need to download it in large text
  files including CCDAs or would get printouts and
  CDs with data that was disorganized.

The healthcare providers also suffer a lot to
keep their patients interactive and to be updated
with their medical records.
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Benefits of FHIR to patients (cont..)

• Now, with FHIR getting your health data is made
  simple and easier.
• Securely Share medical health data With FHIR
  and SMART and through Meaningful Use 3, patients
  can authorize access to their health data to any
  application.

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How to get started with FHIR?

• FHIR is a great standard that can be applied to
  solve different clinical, administrative, and
  business problems.
• Its a tool that can create wonders in the hands
  of healthcare innovators.

It helps developers and professionals to create
the best and user-friendly applications
integrated with web browsers functionality
ensuring quick and trustable access to the
relevant data irrespective of which EHR or
application is been used.
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How to get started with FHIR? (cont..)

• Some many tools and services are available to
  support the FHIR standard.

You can make development much faster with the
help of CapMinds FHIR implementation and support
services. If you are ready to make use of the
advantages of FHIR and APIs to improve your
workflows, Contact CapMinds Today.
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