Health Sciences South Carolina lights up a FHIR-based clinical data repository | Healthcare IT News

"While the FHIR specification continues gaining momentum, early success stories are happening among hospitals around the country.  Health Sciences South Carolina, for instance, built a FHIR-based clinical data repository infrastructure to create an inter-institutional culture of collaboration for learning from clinical practice, and empowering action through access to data while advancing evidence. "Our goal was to create the infrastructure for collaborative quality improvement across health systems and for technology-enabled communities of practice that advance healthcare collaboratively," said Jeff Jacobs, a data architect at Health Sciences South Carolina. "The specific problem that we were trying to address is the lack of a standard data model across institutions to support collaborative work."..."