[Extra Resource] The Future of FHIR with Grahame Grieve

In this interview, Sidharth and Grahame talk about the origins of FHIR, the milestones in its journey, and what the future holds. In an earlier blog on Grahame’s mission to end data fragmentation, we cover the discussion in more detail.

Here are a few salient points from that conversation:

• When creating FHIR, Grahame drew from the best ideas in established solutions like HL7 v2, DICOM, openEHR, etc, to create a web-first, developer-friendly standard for health information exchange.
• A significant event in the proliferation of FHIR was the adoption by US vendors for their required patient and provider facing APIs for healthcare data access. Additionally, Apple’s adoption of FHIR in its Health app to import patient health data boosted its public perception.
• The decision for FHIR to follow the 80/20 rule was crucial in its popularity, ensuring that the core FHIR standard remains easy to understand and widely applicable.
• FHIR-native storage has been gaining in popularity, with many considering it a natural extension to using FHIR for information exchange. Grahame opines that FHIR may not be optimal for fast, complex data retrieval.

Check out this detailed article on Grahame Grieve’s approach to ending data fragmentation.