[lbhnact]

FHIR is probably the best we are going to do for a long while to come.

If you're ever interested in learning more, my company builds the national reference implementation of SMART on FHIR for the Harvard DBMI, in support of the NIH 'Sync For Science' Pilot - happy to talk all about FHIR and data exchange standards!

The participating vendors will be launching pilots this year and things are proceeding well. If we can give them some positive attention for it, maybe we'll see some progress. I sure hope so!

[]https://www.healthit.gov/buzz-blog/health-innovation/nih-and...

[specialist]

I've been a part of a few standards/interop efforts. Postel's Law and my experiences indicate those efforts are non-starters.

I also participated NHIN's first competitive interop whatever it was called. (We were sub to Northup Grumman. Our team won. Yay. That recognition plus $3 will get you bad cup of coffee.)

The secret to interop is to ignore the standards. No one else cares, so why should you?

For inbound, just capture whatever is sent, use web scrape style tools to extract the bits you care about. For outbound, manually create payloads that work (maybe with SOAP-UI and then tweak), turn them into templates.

If you're a monster org like Boeing or Toyota, you can rule by fiat. Everyone else has to fake it.

[synaesthesisx]

Where do you see things headed in terms of FHIR adoption? Personally I think SMART/FHIR is fantastic; getting vendors to actually use it is the real challenge...

I wasn't aware of this NIH 'Sync for Science' program though, very neat!