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AMIA Annu Symp Proc2019;2019592-596.January 1, 2019Journal Article

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

Dianbo Liu1,2, Ricky Sahu3, Vlad Ignatov1, Dan Gottlieb4, Kenneth D Mandl1,4
1Computational Health informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
2Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
31upHealth, Boston, MA, USA.
4Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

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 "p…

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