From the course: Data Governance for the Healthcare Industry
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API management and FHIR standards
From the course: Data Governance for the Healthcare Industry
API management and FHIR standards
- [Instructor] Healthcare has traditionally struggled with information exchange. Application programming interfaces, or APIs, offer a path towards the standardized secure data exchange. However, implementing APIs without governance creates new risks. Imagine APIs like doorways. They let different computer systems talk to each other. Managing these doorways starts with big picture decisions about why you're creating them. Are they mainly for your internal systems to communicate or are they for sharing information with outside organizations? You also need to decide which of your systems should be available through these doorways, and what rules these doorways need to follow. Let's take a deeper look at how to implement it. As mentioned chapter two in this course, a standard called FHIR is becoming the common language for this system connections. You can start leveraging FHIR by identifying your most critical data sharing needs, and mapping these needs to specific FHIR resources and…
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