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FHIR and Interoperability in Digital Health Care — Part 1

From aggregated health data apps to telemedicine and digital front doors, the pandemic has propelled consumer demand for innovative and enhanced health care solutions. Within this context, digital health care interoperability has now become a digital supply chain challenge as health care providers must get data or information out of systems of record, such as electronic health record (EHR) systems, into destination systems and consumers across multiple organizational boundaries while ensuring security and data privacy. This post will look at ways to modernize the digital health care supply chain and outline its challenges and opportunities.

What all of this means is that health care organizations, providers, payers and other health care stakeholders need to deal with many heterogeneous data sources.

To truly innovate, a health care organization needs access to consolidated information across multiple systems.