What Is the Best FHIR Storage Strategy?

One of the most significant obstacles healthcare providers and their partners face is the successful integration or development of the EHR system within their solution. Data runs the industry, and those willing to attain success understand that ensuring patient data usage efficiency and security is a must.

FHIR, the industry’s golden standard for ensuring data interoperability and safety when in transit, has become the ultimate solution for checking the information effectiveness on one healthcare business’s success list. However, when switching to the FHIR repository, the question of which tech option to use is often a serious dilemma.?

How would you set up a FHIR storage for your healthcare organization? Let me know here on LinkedIn before we start our today’s conversation.

Lack of Experience Fosters Unnecessary Mistakes

Many healthcare providers tend to complicate their work by opting for the wrong FHIR storage setup options. The reason behind their mistake is a tripartite one:?

• Healthcare Software Development Is Hard

Healthcare has more intricate workflows and integrations than other sectors like fintech or automotive. Not everyone understands that to outperform your competitors, your technology partner must quickly master healthcare standards such as FHIR, HL7, HIPAA, CCDA, and X12.

• Low-Quality Data Running Decision-Making

Developing custom EHR software is a challenging task due to the presence of various data hurdles and silos. One of the most common issues inexperienced developers face is mapping data to FHIR resources. Besides, other challenges include dealing with duplicate records across multiple databases, vendors, and institutions. These issues make it difficult to develop HEDIS or CDS reports on top of RxNorm, LOINC, or SNOMED/ICD-10/CPT/HCPCs, causing operational and financial pain.

• Lack of Competence in Engineers' Qualification

In today's market, numerous partners are available, but how many specialize in custom healthcare software development? Finding healthcare talent unicorns is extremely rare due to the heavily regulated nature of the domain. That makes it complicated and sets the bar high for those willing to enter it.?

Establishing FHIR Storage the Right Way

The SPsoft engineers have a unique strategy for developing an efficient FHIR-compliant EHR solution. We offer to deploy HAPI FHIR with a custom-tailored UI based on our patented telehealth accelerator. That equips the solution with all the additional features required to meet the client's needs.

Also, remember that UI in healthcare is a specialized domain that demands specific skills. Patient experience is different from client experience. Thus, finding engineers with flawless FHIR and UX expertise might be a tall order.

More Options for Efficient FHIR Storage Set Up

When it comes to custom software development, there are always multiple options available. If our offer aligns differently with your business development plan, there are four other alternatives you can consider. The latter can help you establish an efficient FHIR storage for your product.

• Option 1. Consider beginning with the available boxed EHR/EMR products and then customizing them per your requirements.?
• Option 2. You can develop a new tailor-made platform on top of existing FHIR storage.?
• Option 3. Another option is to combine custom development with boxed EHR/EMR products.?
• Option 4. Lastly, you can develop your custom platform from scratch without utilizing existing EHR/EMR products and FHIR storage.

To Conclude

There is the best strategy for setting up an FHIR storage. Start with talking to an experienced software development partner specializing in healthcare. Together, you will assess all options and scenarios, eventually reaching the one that will ensure maximum cost-efficiency and profitability of your FHIR storage. Would you like to get a personalized FHIR storage set-up strategy? Write me a message at [email protected] or fill out the contact form. Together, we will craft the best path for your seamless FHIR transition.