Episode

Ask the Expert: Azure Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources

Understanding Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is critical when developing solutions for Healthcare. Learn more about FHIR, Interoperability and the Azure API for FHIR from Doug Seven, Senior Director at Microsoft Health Next. He will talk about why interoperability is key in healthcare, and how FHIR can be used to relate points of data from across disparate systems to build solutions that promote better health outcomes.

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Chapters

  • 00:00 - Introduction
  • 00:39 - What is FHIR? Why should professionals, particularly those in the healthcare space, care about it?
  • 03:49 - What is your team and Microsoft doing while engaging with the five standards and building for it?
  • 07:07 - Why did you opt for open source?
  • 09:19 - How do you tackle compliance and HIPAA safe habor guidelines when working with PHI data?
  • 13:49 - What is the ONC Cures Act and how does it affect FHIR adoption across the industry?
  • 17:56 - What about other types of data such as CT scans or MRIs? Do they fall within the same paradigm of FHIR?
  • 21:49 - How has device-led care adapted to a Covid-necessitated virtual environment? Have you built this into the API for FHIR?
  • 26:31 - What challenges commonly faced by customers do you think the API for FHIR can help solve or mitigate?
  • 28:27 - Closing Notes

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