How FHIR 4 will drive interoperability progress in healthcare

Healthcare IT News: On January 2, Health Level Seven debuted the new version of its interoperability specification. Many CIOs and technologists in healthcare have been awaiting the fourth iteration of the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard – FHIR 4, for short – because future changes now will be backward compatible.

“Applications that implement the normative parts of R4 no longer risk being non-conformant to the standard,” said FHIR Product Director Grahame Grieve on the FHIR blog.

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