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Health Informatics on FHIR: How HL7's New API is Transforming Healthcare

Abstract

In the previous chapter we discussed how health information technology is being used to help patients better manage their own care. In this chapter, we will focus on main impediments to interoperability and provide examples of how those impediments have been overcome, at least in part.

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    Mark L. Braunstein

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Braunstein, M.L. (2018). Health Information Exchange. In: Health Informatics on FHIR: How HL7's New API is Transforming Healthcare . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93414-3_5

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