Open Platform Architecture Based Upon SMART Apps Platform and the HL7 FHIR® (DSTU) Demonstrated at HIMSS14
MAY 2014 Open Platform Architecture Based Upon SMART Apps Platform and the HL7 FHIR® (DSTU) Demonstrated at HIMSS14 By David Kreda, Translation Advisor, and Joshua Mandel MD, Lead Architect, SMART Platforms Project Harvard Medical School/Children’s Hospital Boston www.smartplatforms.org During the HIMSS14 Annual Conference (Feb- ferent internal architectures ruary 23-27, 2014 in Orlando, Florida), several and technologies, they healthcare IT exhibitors presented an eye-open- were nonetheless able to ing example of the potential of HL7’s newest supply the data via FHIR standard, FHIR® (Fast Healthcare Interoperabil- API calls made by the suite David Kreda ity Resources). The list of exhibitors included of SMART Apps that were Cerner, Intermountain Healthcare, Hewlett Pack- installed on their systems. ard, and Harris Corporation. They presented the Harris Corporation then SMART on FHIR Open Platform Architecture, demonstrated its services which combines FHIR and the open source, web- oriented architecture (SOA) standards based technology stack created by the service, which accepted SMART Platforms Project, a research effort based same FHIR API queries at Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hos- from the SMART apps, fed- pital Boston that enables real-time integration of erated queries to the same substitutable medical apps, or SMART apps, on EHR systems holding the EHR systems. patient data, and synthe- Josh Mandel, MD sized a cross system, longi- Three sophisticated EHR systems, including tudinal patient record, which was returned to the Cerner Millennium, HELP2 from Intermountain requesting SMART app. Healthcare, and VistA from the Veterans Health Administration, were each independently FHIR- Hewlett Packard, which engineered the SMART enabled in less than six weeks.
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