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The Use of FHIR in Digital Health – A Review of the Scientific Literature

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Lehne Moritz, Luijten Sandra, Vom Felde Genannt Imbusch Paulina, Thun Sylvia·2019·Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Abstract

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), an international standard for exchanging digital health data, is increasingly used in health information technology. FHIR promises to facilitate the use of electronic health records (EHRs), enable mobile technologies and make health data accessible to large-scale analytics. Until now, there is no comprehensive review of scientific articles about FHIR and its use in digital health. Here, we aim to address this gap and provide an overview of the main topics associated with FHIR in the scientific literature. For this, we screened all articles about FHIR on Web of Science and PubMed and identified the main topics discussed in these articles. We also explored the temporal trend and geography of publications and performed some basic text mining on article abstracts. We found that the topics most commonly discussed in the articles were related to data models, mobile and web applications as well as medical devices. Since its introduction, the number of publications about FHIR have steadily increased until 2017, indicating an increasing popularity of FHIR in healthcare (in 2018, publication numbers remained stable). In sum, our study provides an overview of the scientific literature about FHIR and its current use in digital health.

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Authors
Moritz, L., Sandra, L., Paulina, V. F. G. I., & Sylvia, T.
Venue
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Publisher
IOS Press
Published
2019
Volume
267
Pages
52-58
ISSN
0926-9630 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2981115805
Cited by
88
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0
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 11
FWCI
26.27
Type
book chapter
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by-nc
Locations
  • Studies in health technology and informatics (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Research Publications (Maastricht University) (submittedVersion)
  • PubMed
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Electronic Health Records Systems
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Medical Coding and Health Information
Keywords
FHIR, Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, health data interoperability, electronic health records, digital health, health information technology, data model, mobile health apps, web application, medical devices, health data analytics, publication trends
MeSH terms
Medical Informatics, PubMed, Data Mining, Electronic Health Records

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