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So back in 2011 I wrote the first profile in IHE that was targeting ‘ease of use by lightweight application platforms such as Mobile Health Applications”. This happened to be the same timeframe that Grahame was fanning the FHIR flames. So we joined forces and brought the concepts needed for XDS into FHIR®.
FHIR is on the horizon. The portability issue is addressed by a new health data interface called FHIR (pronounced fire), which is in healthcare news constantly these days. Here’s a Google News search for “FHIR news” in the past month – over 100 articles.) That’s where FHIR comes in.
Since 2011, the number of digital health deals has risen steadily, from $1.2bn spent within 92 deals, to $3.4bn over 193 deals in 2018. Healthcare has witnessed a number of vertical integrations in H1, such as CVS & Aetna, Optum’s acquisition of the DaVita Medical Group, Humana and Kindred Healthcare, Cigna and Express Scripts and others.
I am the Product Director and Community Lead for the FHIR standard , which is published through HL7 , the leading international healthcare standards provider. USA is a leader in FHIR adoption. In response to these trends, in 2011 I created the FHIR specification, to allow the use of Web APIs in healthcare. Introduction.
Then I transitioned to University of Illinois in 2011 to start a preventive emergency medicine program. The FHIR standard is a promising technology, but as we found with the CMMI Accountable Health Communities, there is a substantial gap in tech between health IT and community IT. How can technology fit into a program like yours?
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