The electronic health record is the most important software product in every modern healthcare enterprise's digital ecosystem.
Healthcare is a high-stakes, data-rich industry, and in an effort to preserve the privacy and integrity of patient data, healthcare enterprises often prioritize a comprehensive, generalist electronic health record product that covers as many business and clinical operations as possible. The alternative of stitching together a collection of specialized electronic health records can be difficult, expensive, or risky.
As the generalist electronic health records balloon in size and complexity, they can become unwieldy for developers and users looking to innovate. Developers struggle to untangle the layers of legacy components and make upgrades on pace with other industries. Users suffer with unintuitive interfaces and complain that electronic health records aren't capable enough to support important new use cases in digital health.
That's the problem SMART on FHIR helps solve. It's a combination of modern, web-friendly technologies that is mandated in the United States and is gaining popularity around the world. It enables healthcare enterprises to more easily get data in and out of their electronic health record as well as compliment their electronic health record with modern visualizations.
Check out the public gallery of SMART on FHIR apps (https://lnkd.in/g7i-pXBK) or see my post about the simplest SMART on FHIR app ever:
https://lnkd.in/gyG6Q_Vq
Next time you find yourself wishing for a feature your electronic health record doesn't have, consider SMART on FHIR!