Healthcare Technology & Interoperability: By the Numbers
  • 99%+of non-federal acute care hospitals in the US had adopted a certified electronic health record by 2024, up from roughly 9% in 2008, according to the ONC Health IT Data Brief.
  • 95%+of certified health IT developers met ONC's Cures Act deadline to enable patient access through HL7 FHIR-based APIs, reports the ONC Health IT Buzz Blog.

What Is FHIR in Healthcare?

What Is FHIR in Healthcare?

What is FHIR in healthcare?

FHIR is a modern standard for exchanging healthcare data between systems. It defines a common way to describe and share things like patients, medications, and lab results, so different health software can actually talk to each other.

Healthcare has long suffered from systems that cannot share data, leaving patient information stranded in silos. FHIR tackles that by giving everyone a shared, web friendly format for health data.

For anyone building healthcare software, supporting FHIR is what lets your system connect to the wider health ecosystem instead of becoming another island.

Sthenos builds interoperable clinical systems, like a secure EMR solution for a Florida therapy provider, designed to share data cleanly and safely.

Related terms: electronic medical record (EMR), EMR vs EHR.

What is the difference between HL7 and FHIR?

FHIR is a newer standard from the same body behind HL7. It is more modern and web friendly, which is why it has caught on quickly.

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