Webinar Title: How are FHIR-based APIs changing healthcare?
Date & Time: July 15th 2020, 12:00-1:30PM ET
Panelists:
- Virginia Lorenzini
- Lloyd McKenzie
- Mike O’Neill
- Helen Oscislawski
Audience: Health providers, nursing, IT staff & leadership, CFOs, DoH, students
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the state of development of open-access APIs within healthcare
- Understand how regulatory requirements affect open-access APIs in New York State
- Understand business implications of the availability of open-access APIs
Preliminary content:
FHIR offers many improvements over existing standards:
- A strong focus on implementation: fast and easy to implement (multiple developers have had simple interfaces working in a single day)
- Multiple implementation libraries, many examples available to kick-start development
- Specification is free for use with no restrictions
- Interoperability out-of-the-box: base resources can be used as is, but can also be adapted as needed – which happens a lot – for local requirements using Profiles, Extensions, Terminologies and more
- Evolutionary development path from HL7 Version 2 and CDA: standards can co-exist and leverage each other
- Strong foundation in Web standards: XML, JSON, HTTP, OAuth, etc.
- Support for RESTful architectures, seamless exchange of information using messages or documents, and service-based architectures
- Concise and easily understood specifications
- A human-readable serialization format for ease of use by developers
- Ontology-based analysis with formal mapping for correctness (under development)