Advanced Health Technology

Chapter 13 Playing with FHIR: The Path to Ensuring We Bring the Power of Supercomputing to How We Understand Healthcare in Medicine

Lucia C. Savage

DOI: 10.4324/9781003348603-17

Contents

Introduction

Start at the Beginning

The First Wave: 1974–2003

The Second Wave: Digitizing Clinical Data

The Third Wave: Exchange “Without Special Effort”

But Why?

What Is Next?

Widespread Easier Health Information Exchange between Institutions

Patient-Initiated Data Calls (aka “Patient-Mediated Exchange”)

Conclusion

Note

Bibliography

Introduction

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