FHIR Definitions

**Overview**
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is an interoperability standard for electronic exchange of healthcare information. FHIR was developed by Health Level Seven International (HL7), a not-for-profit organization accredited by the American National Standards Institute that develops and provides frameworks and standards for the sharing, integration and retrieval of clinical health data and other electronic health information.

**Description**
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is a draft standard describing data formats and elements (known as "resources") and an application programming interface (API) for exchanging electronic health records. The standard was created by the Health Level Seven International (HL7) health-care standards organization.

Its goal is to facilitate interoperation between legacy healthcare systems, to make it easy to provide healthcare information to healthcare providers and individuals on a wide variety of devices from computers to tablets to cell phones, and to allow third-party application developers to provide medical applications which can be easily integrated into existing systems.

FHIR provides an alternative to document-centric approaches by directly exposing discrete data elements as services. For example, basic elements of healthcare like patients, admissions, diagnostic reports and medications can each be retrieved and manipulated via their own resource URLs (Uniform Resource Locators). FHIR was supported at an American Medical Informatics Association meeting by many EHR (Electronic Health Record) vendors which value its open and extensible nature.

**Benefits**
- data spread over multiple practices and specialties can be accessed by all physicians providing care to a single patient, creating a more complete picture of all treatment plans and results.
- a complete ehr record can reduce unnecessary tests such as lab work and imaging and offer full medication history for more accurate prescribing.
- patient care levels and outcomes within an organization will benefit from data that assists a practice to better assess its success in patient treatment plans, improves patient engagement strategies, provides better community outreach, improves patient outcomes and reduces the need for more critical care or hospital admissions.
- new and changing requirements, such as population health, will require consolidation of all patients within an organization that share common elements and can be combined with other populations to give national or regional statistics.
- provides a framework for more scalable data advances via the use of existing language formats that will not incur the complete cost of replacing existing ehr systems.

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