Interoperability Advances in Electronic Health Records: 3 Hospitals Achieve 'Snow Tunnel Opening' Milestone
3院電子病歷互通官員憶確認時「震撼像雪隧打通」 | 生活 - 中央社
Summary
Three hospitals—Taichung Zhongshan, Chang Gung, and Mackay—will achieve real-time medical record interoperability by the end of this year. This success signifies successful conversion to FHIR format, significantly boosting the capacity and efficiency of healthcare information exchange.
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Taiwan previously faced a fragmented healthcare IT landscape with over 40 different electronic health record systems, often requiring manual methods like burning CDs or printing paper for inter-hospital patient data transfer. However, according to officials, three major hospitals—Taichung Zhongshan Hospital, Chang Gung, and Mackay—are set to achieve real-time medical record interoperability by the end of this year. This achievement was highlighted at the 'Cross-Hospital FHIR Data Platform' presentation. The success demonstrates that raw electronic health record data has been successfully converted into the internationally recognized FHIR format, proving high interoperability. Experts described confirming the instant data transfer as having a
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