In the article Health Sciences South Carolina lights up an FHIR-based clinical data repository, Healthcare IT News writes about HSSC's Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)-based clinical data repository infrastructure, which represents an "emerging standard...that allows open access to clinical data without the requirement of proprietary or licensed programming infrastructure."
This infrastructure creates "an inter-institutional culture of collaboration for learning from clinical practice, and empowering action through access to data while advancing evidence," the article continues, before adding that the repository works to help HSSC preserve the independence of multi-institutional data while simultaneously supporting the ability to link across institutions.
Want to learn more? Read the full article here, including input from a number of HSSC leaders and team members.