sustainability Article Implement an International Interoperable PHR by FHIR—A Taiwan Innovative Application Yen-Liang Lee 1,2, Hsiu-An Lee 3,4,5,*, Chien-Yeh Hsu 4,5,6,*, Hsin-Hua Kung 4,5 and Hung-Wen Chiu 1,* 1 Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics, Taipei Medical University, Taipei 110, Taiwan;
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[email protected] (H.-W.C.) Abstract: Personal health records (PHRs) have lots of benefits for things such as health surveil- lance, epidemiological surveillance, self-control, links to various services, public health and health management, and international surveillance. The implementation of an international standard for interoperability is essential to accessing personal health records. In Taiwan, the nationwide exchange platform for electronic medical records (EMRs) has been in use for many years. The Health Level Seven International (HL7) Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) was used as the standard of the EMRs. However, the complication of implementing CDA became a barrier for many hospitals to real- ize the standard EMRs. In this study, we implemented a Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)-based PHR transformation process including a user interface module to review the contents of PHRs.