The HL7 community is clearly working very hard on the new FHIR standard. HL7 and IHE have made agreements on an international level to include the FHIR standard in IHE Integration Profiles. Andries Hamster, Board member IHE International and Forcare VP or Business Development, explains what this means.
...FHIR significantly lowers the barrier to implementation of healthcare interoperability as it is more developer-friendly and clinically focused than previous attempts at healthcare standardization.
Interoperability among diverse healthcare environments no longer needs to be solved with complex and expensive custom extensions. FHIR® (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) is a next generation standards framework that adapts existing systems into an easily read framework.
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