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Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, or FHIR, is an interoperability rule that will enable on-demand information exchange of clinical records among providers and data systems. FHIR was created by the Health Level Seven International healthcare standards organization (HL7) specifically for healthcare organizations. The goal of FHIR is to assist practices in delivering more value to patients between appointments, so that they can focus on providing the best possible care to patients in the office. This will, in turn, result in more coordinated, cost-efficient care.

Too often, health systems are distracted by the technical or administrative processes that facilitate interoperability in healthcare. This causes providers to lose sight of their top goal: improving patient care by sharing the best information available at the point of care. By adopting the new healthcare data exchange standard, providers can more efficiently share patient data, payers can drive down costs and improve outcomes, and patients can take greater control of their health.

FHIR builds on previous data format standards like HL7, but it is easier to implement because it uses a modern web-based suite of API technology. FHIR makes it easy to provide healthcare information to healthcare providers and individuals on a wide variety of devices including computers, tablets, and cell phones. It also allows third-party application developers to provide medical applications which can be easily integrated into existing systems. FHIR helps Healthcare IT software providers rapidly create new innovative solutions to improve patient care. Because FHIR is a modern architecture solution and scales well, the next generation of applications can utilize FHIR to bring their solutions to market faster, and with greater impact.

Criterions partners with EMR Direct to help your practice improve patient care. EMR Direct can enable data from Criterions EHR at FHIR endpoints, for access to these resources by users you authorize, leveraging patient portal credentials already in place.

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