Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources

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The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR, , like fire) is a technical standard by HL7 International for health information exchange. It is designed for a wide range of settings and with different health care information systems. The standard describes data formats and elements (known as "resources") and an API (application programming interface) for exchanging electronic health records (EHR). FHIR builds on previous data format standards from HL7, like HL7 version 2.x and HL7 version 3.x. But it is easier to implement because it uses a modern web-based suite of API technology, including a REST protocol, and a choice of JSON, XML or RDF for data representation. One of its goals is to facilitate interoperability between legacy health care systems, to make it easier to provide health care information to health care 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...

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