Standardizing Childhood Cancer Survivor Care: SurPass Evolves with HL7-FHIR Support

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This article reports on the evolution of 'SurPass,' a follow-up system developed by the PanCare project for childhood cancer survivors. The technical focus is on the update from v1.1 to v2.0, which incorporates support for the international standard HL7-FHIR. This compliance is crucial for enhancing compatibility and reliability in data exchange, enabling seamless information linkage across multiple medical institutions and regions. Specifically, SurPass v2.0 facilitates integration with the PanCareFollowUp system, allowing for more advanced data management. Furthermore, this update helps standardize follow-up processes in clinical trials (CCS), aiding data collection and analysis. This represents a major advancement in establishing an international information sharing platform for the highly specialized field of childhood cancer survivor care. The system is improving its reliability and usability through improvements in data structure and clinical workflows, including efforts toward MD certification. For Japan's healthcare IT sector, building standardized information exchange infrastructure in highly specialized disease areas is a pressing challenge, making this case study valuable insight.