Public FHIR Implementation Guides are thin on the ground.
I’m talking about domain specific guides of the size and scope of mCode and CardX, but for different areas of healthcare.
We all know there are huge gaps to be filled here. But what’s not obvious is the opportunities these gaps present to private businesses.
When it comes to healthcare data there is a leadership vacuum across so many domains.
Domains that don’t fall under the remit or focus of one of the existing FHIR Accelerators and that don’t have a champion in the private sector.
They languish, with no work being done in public to properly define profiles and ValueSets. Each business or organization left to build their own data models with little commonality between them.
So where’s the opportunity?
Data is feeding the AI world. This is clear to everyone in healthcare, in medtech, in pharma.
Every business is worried about this. Worried that they’ll be left behind as competitors move faster and carve out positions for themselves as leaders in data and AI.
What they’re all missing is the leadership opportunity presented by FHIR and by FHIR Implementation Guides.
There is a real opportunity for these businesses – leaders in their own fields – to step up and lead from the data side as well.
If you’re a medtech company who excels and leads the world in hardware, now is the time to lead on the data side as well.
Same for pharma, digital health, pathology, and so on…
Take a leadership role in helping define and deliver Implementation Guides that encompass your area of expertise.
Position yourselves as data leaders by genuinely leading and delivering on that leadership.
Do it collaboratively and do it in public.
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