While Health Level 7 International’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is still emerging as a mature standard, app developers have widely embraced HL7’s FHIR in many current use cases.

Health IT vendors see FHIR as a critical component to solving the complex interoperability challenges that are confronting healthcare organizations. Ultimately, they view their respective efforts as creating an ecosystem of third-party apps that will serve to increase consumer access to their health records through the open FHIR application programming interface.