High Performance Computing on Flat FHIR Files Created with the New SMART/HL7 Bulk Data Access Standard

Dianbo Liu; Ricky Sahu; Vlad Ignatov; Dan Gottlieb; Kenneth D Mandl

High Performance Computing on Flat FHIR Files Created with the New SMART/HL7 Bulk Data Access Standard

AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2020 Mar 4:2019:592-596. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Dianbo Liu^{1

2}, Ricky Sahu³, Vlad Ignatov¹, Dan Gottlieb⁴, Kenneth D Mandl^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Computational Health informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
² Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
³ 1upHealth, Boston, MA, USA.
⁴ Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

PMID: 32308853
PMCID: PMC7153160

Abstract

The FHIR Bulk Data API is designed to create a uniform capability for population-level exports from clinical systems, into a file format often referred to as "Flat-FHIR." Leveraging the SMART backend services authentication and authorization profile, the approach enables healthcare providers and organizations to define and access cohorts from electronic health records and payor claims data with "push button" simplicity--a substantial advance over the current state, where each site of care needs highly skilled extraction transform and load (ETL) efforts.

MeSH terms

Electronic Health Records*
Health Information Exchange*
Health Information Interoperability / standards*
Health Level Seven
Health Personnel
Humans
Machine Learning