Fast Health Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is a web-based, easy to implement, standard for exchanging healthcare information electronically. Apple, Google, Microsoft, large health IT companies, federal agencies (Office of the National Coordinator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Veterans Administration) and Big Pharma have embraced it, as has NIH (NIH, NOT-OD-19-122). NIH sees it a possible pathway to their long term goal for reusable and interoperable research data (NIH, Data Sharing Guidance 2003);
NLM has a longstanding interest in the support and development of clinical terminology and message standards. At NLM’s Lister Hill Center, we have developed a number of open source support tools for FHIR based medical record systems.
This session will provide a quick overview with links to all our tools but dedicate most of the time to our implementation of FHIR Questionnaire/SDC, the UCUM validator, and as time permit, the HGVS validator.