For the last 5 weeks, patients of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) have been able to access their medical information on Apple iOS devices, following the VA’s announcement on 11/6/19 that it will support connections from a user’s Health app on their iPhone to the VA’s electronic health record (EHR) system. To date, over 16,400 veterans have utilized this capability.
The Health app, which is pre-installed on all Apple iPhone devices, serves as a user-friendly way for patients to view their medical information from any participating healthcare organization in a single, longitudinal view. Apple Health Records leverages the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard to aggregate data elements from disparate EHR systems, healthcare organizations, and providers. Apple launched its FHIR-compliant Health Records feature in its iOS 11.3 operating system update.
Engineers from Liberty IT Solutions developed and deployed an Application Programming Interface (API) Gateway to provide the primary pathway for interoperability between VA’s health systems and approved use-cases, including Apple’s Health app. In addition, Liberty provided custom development of FHIR APIs to expose legacy VA health records in a modern, secure, and standards-compliant format for both internal and external consumption… Read the full press release here.
Source: Liberty IT Solutions newsroom – December 20, 2019. Liberty IT Solutions.
