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FHIR Transforms the Business of Healthcare for Clinicians

Russell B. Leftwich, MD

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FHIR Applications Roundtable Harvard, July 2016

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Interoperability: The meaning of the data is

understood, and data is usable in the workflow of the receiver

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All clinical domains have data that is important to them and

usually their workflow dictates how that information is best

presented

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Usability: Data views that fit the workflow

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Pediatric Growth Table

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Pediatric Growth Chart

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Context: The app knows about the patient

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VisualDx uses the FHIR standard to obtain:

• patient’s age • gender • problem list (conditions encoded with SNOMED-

CT) • medication list (medications encoded with RxNorm)

Result: provides the user with VisualDx data and images matching their specific conditions or drug eruption/reaction differentials.

VisualDx and FHIR for Decision Support

Differential Builder Image Results in VisualDx

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FHIR Genomics: Data from heterogeneous sources

API Resource oriented, everything a URL

Data Model Context (container, user, patient) Medical (problems, allergies, … )

Authentication Consistent delegation, web standards (OAuth)

UI Standards-based integration (HTML5)

SMART: Substitutable Medical Applications, Reusable Technology

SMART Architecture

SMART on FHIR Genomics Clinico-Genomic Apps

SMART on FHIR Clinico-Genomics Apps

SMART Precision Cancer Medicine App

(Warner & Alterovitz, JAMIA, 2016)

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What next for FHIR apps?

The ability to access data for an individual across systems and

across organizations.

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• Acknowledgements

• Dr. Scott Narus • Dr. Art Papier • Dr. Gil Alterovitz

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THANK YOU!

Russell.Leftwich@InterSystems.com Twitter: @DocOnFHIR