Is FHIR Adoption At A Turning Point, Or Is This Just More Hype?

Over the last few years, healthcare industry players have continued to experiment with the use of HL7 FHIR to solve key interoperability problems. Perhaps the most recent efforts to do so is the Da Vinci Project, which brings together a group of payers, health IT vendors, and providers dedicated to fostering value-based care with FHIR. The group has begun work on two test cases, one addressing 30-day medication reconciliation and the other coverage requirements discovery. This wasn’t big news, as it doesn’t seem to be doing anything that new. In fact, few if any of these projects — of which there have been many — have come close to establishing FHIR firmly established as a standard, much less fostering major change in the healthcare industry. Now, a new analysis by the ONC suggests that we may finally be on the verge of a FHIR breakthrough. According to ONC’s research, which looked at how health IT developers used FHIR to meet 2015 Edition certification requirements, roughly 32% of the health IT developers certified are using FHIR Release 2, and nearly 51% of health IT developers seem to be using a version of FHIR combined with OAuth 2.0. While this may not sound very impressive (and at first glance, it didn’t to me), the certified products issued by the top 10 certified health IT developers serve about 82% of hospitals and 64% of clinicians. Not only that, big tech companies staking out an expanded position in healthcare are leveraging FHIR 2, t...
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