8 Advantages of FHIR

FHIR stands for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources. It is a standard for exchanging healthcare information electronically and combines the best features from HL7 v2, HL7 v3, and CDA, while also adding several significant improvements over previous standards.

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Advantages of FHIR in today's Healthcare Data World

  • Supports RESTful architecture
  • Fast and easy to implement
  • Cost savings for Healthcare IT teams
  • FHIR is vendor neutral
  • Well suited for mobile use
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FHIR's ease make it easily adoptable for today's agile health environment

A Free For Use Language

Unlike HL7 standards, which were not freely available until 2013, the specifications for FHIR are 100% available without a login or any restrictions.

Developer Friendly

FHIR employs many popular, modern web technologies that developers are already familiar with such as HTTPS, REST, XML, JSON, ATOM, and OAuth.

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