HIMAA 2025: FHIR and Digital Health Trends Drive Innovation

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Australia is already utilizing outcomes from the 'Sparked FHIR' accelerator to drive innovation, as presented at the National Health Information Management Conference. Dr. David Hansen, CEO and Research Director of AeHRC, used a revamped Australian Cardiovascular Disease Risk Calculator as an example. This calculator was built using the SMART-on-FHIR standard, extracting data from GP record systems via FHIR APIs. The ability to use standardized clinical data at the point of care is key, allowing clinicians to input missing data which then writes back into the system. Dr. Hansen noted that electronic health records are evolving beyond mere storage; they will become platforms capable of running algorithms and providing apps for clinicians. Furthermore, he emphasized four major trends: 1) Interoperability (the ability to move data with meaning across systems); 2) Cloud adoption for enhanced security; 3) Apps and personalization (bringing analytics to the data); and 4) AI/ML (using machine learning on datasets like genomics or images). A project was highlighted involving using AI methods to identify drugs, genes, and cancers from millions of medical articles to accelerate treatment discovery for childhood cancer. AeHRC's work is a community process involving various Australian government bodies. These advancements underscore the global shift toward standardized data exchange (FHIR) and advanced computational support in healthcare IT.

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FHIR（Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources）は医療データ交換の国際標準。このエントリの関連技術: FHIR