The accelerating importance of HL7 FHIR for the U.S. Healthcare Industry

HL7 FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) is a long overdue modernization of healthcare data interoperability. While currently most healthcare interoperability is still transacted in a 30-year-old EDI flat-file standard HL7 v 2.x that allows a lot of variability in the payload, over half of healthcare providers polled by IDC¹ expect the HL7 FHIR standard will have an above-average to significant impact on the industry – and this market sentiment is still too conservative.