“The purpose of this notice is to encourage NIH researchers to explore the use of the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) standard to capture, integrate, and exchange clinical data for research purposes and to enhance capabilities to share research data…”
“A number of tools and technical resources supporting the use of FHIR for clinical care and administrative purposes already exist. In addition, NIH is considering approaches to foster development of FHIR tools to support research uses of clinical and administrative data. NIH plans to issue a Request for Information to solicit input from the scientific community and other stakeholders about the types of tools that might be needed to support use of FHIR in biomedical research, as well as implementation challenges and opportunities they foresee in using FHIR, including privacy, security, and protection of patient data.”
“Through this notice, NIH encourages funded researchers to explore the use of the FHIR standard to capture and integrate patient- and population-level data from clinical information systems for research purposes and to use it as common structure for sharing research data…”
Source: Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) Standard, July 30, 2019. NIH.gov.
