Colorado HIE bets on FHIR to speed up data exchange

Healthcare IT News: Colorado Regional Health Information Organization plans to implement the FHIR standard to improve data exchange between providers, the group recently announced at Denver’s Prime Health Innovation Summit.

FHIR, created by standards organization HL7, is a standards framework that enables data sharing and communication between apps.

CORHIO began to discuss the potential for leveraging FHIR for its health information exchange about a year ago and has been working with HL7 to internally build the platform for about four or five months, CORHIO CEO Morgan Honea said.

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