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Hannan Butt
Hannan Butt

Reputation: 304

What is difference between EDI and FHIR?

i know that EDI is used for transference of electronic documents. And FHIR are standards developed by HL7 which is also used for transfer of health related documents. But can we use EDI to connect with FHIR, or are the both separate domains.
The reason i am asking for that is because i have experience in EDI and am now trying to work with IBM Watson API. The confusion is FHIR as there is requirement of following these standards for communication. So main thing i want to know is that can we use EDI to communicate with FHIR as in documents i have defined the protocols required for FHIR.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3647

Answers (3)

JZ-Jose Jojo Tarrago
JZ-Jose Jojo Tarrago

Reputation: 1

EDI-Is a blanket cross-domain definition on Electronic Data Exchange. Now on healthcare space you have the EDI/X12 for claims billing and HL7 for medical information exchange HL7=XML standard/heavy payload and FHIR HL7-JSON standards whereby the latter is a lightweight flexible messaging standard.

Upvotes: 0

Hannan Butt
Hannan Butt

Reputation: 304

To know about FHIR, information on HL-7 is must. Basically HL-7 is organisation that develops standards related to health care and in HL-7 a developer team decided that due to sudden rise in EHR (Electronic Health Records), there should be a way that developer can implement the standards developed by HL-7. So they created FHIR, which means FHIR is health standard for developers. EDI is basic transfer of data/information/documents and if they are health related and in regard to development of EHR system then it is FHIR.
For more Information check this Blog Is FHIR an Industry Disrupter? from Steve Munini (All credit to him and HELIOS for this awesome read which made me understand this concept clearly)

Upvotes: 0

Lloyd McKenzie
Lloyd McKenzie

Reputation: 6803

EDI means sending data electronicly as discrete, computable data elements. You can do EDI all sorts of different ways using proprietary mechanisms or standard mechanisms. FHIR is a standard for doing EDI for healthcare information. Whether you can use FHIR data directly with Watson or not or whether you'll have to translate, I don't know. (And what data formats Watson supports may well evolve over time.)

Upvotes: 3

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