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[Audio] Hi, I'm Mark Braunstein, Professor of the Practice Emeritus at Georgia tech, Visiting Scientist at CSIRO's Australian eHealth Research Centre and Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland. Welcome to Digital Health on FHIR, a survey course that provides a background in healthcare and the digital technologies that are transforming it..
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[Audio] Welcome to Module 1 – Health Care Systems Overview. It covers the basic structure of health care systems and the role that digital health can play in improving the quality and efficiency of the care they deliver. Digital Health dates to the early days of computing but, for decades, progress was painfully slow. Today the field is accelerating at an unprecedented rate and is increasingly including AI as a key tool..
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[Audio] There are several reasons for this acceleration of progress, but none is more important than the emergence of the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR®) standard, as the long sought practical, implementable solution to interoperability -- the packaging and sharing of complex health data. FHIR is being developed under the leadership of its inventor, Australian Grahame Grieve, by Health Level Seven or HL7®, the global health interoperability standards organization. The course will provide a broad introduction to digital health through the lens of this critically important new technology..
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[Audio] Global FHIR activity is shown here in a graphic from James Agnew at HAPI FHIR, the most widely used public FHIR server. It illustrates how the standard is rapidly becoming the default global approach to interoperability. Australian FHIR utilization is quite high given its population and, as we will see, the government's SPARKED initiative is making FHIR the national standard as it already is for countries like the US..