The Transformation of Healthcare IT: The Potential of FHIR and HL7 APIs
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Summary
Mark L. Braunstein discusses the historical evolution of health informatics, drawing on his extensive experience from early EHR systems to modern standards like FHIR. He emphasizes that HL7's Fast Health Interoperability Resources (FHIR) API offers significant potential for innovation and overcoming challenges in healthcare.
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Mark L. Braunstein is an expert who has been involved in the field of health informatics since its early days, starting with rudimentary electronic medical records running on minicomputers. Through his book, 'Health Informatics on FHIR: How HL7's API is Transforming Healthcare,' he shares his deep knowledge. The book provides a broad introduction suitable for readers regardless of technical background, beginning with a historical perspective and reviewing current challenges in healthcare delivery due to aging populations and chronic diseases. It then focuses heavily on the HL7 Fast Health Interoperability Resources (FHIR) API-based standard. Braunstein argues that FHIR is having an enormously positive impact by providing infrastructure for patient care use cases, public health initiatives, improving payment processing, and extending its scope beyond mere data to include medical knowledge representation. His career spans over 20 years in the commercial health IT sector, followed by academic roles at Georgia Tech and continued involvement with international research centers.
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