FHIR forms will improve health assessment procedures and clinical information sharing.
Medical cloud tech MediRecords will use the CSIRO’s open-source Smart Forms software to develop FHIR forms for rapid deployment into clinical use.
The first Smart Form, a falls risk assessment, is expected to be available in MediRecords later this month. That will be extended to inpatient admissions and primary care assessment forms.
Commissioned by the Department of Health and Aged Care, Smart Forms technology was developed to improve health assessment procedures and clinical information sharing, first demonstrated through the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Check Assessment Smart Form.
Standardised forms can streamline how clinicians capture patient data and simplify how this data is made available for research and other analysis.
MediRecords’ integrations lead Sanjeed Quaiyumi said Smart Forms would accelerate the introduction of new health assessments within MediRecords.
“MediRecords is laying the foundations for the adoption of FHIR in the broader health ecosystem, having developed and implemented an extensive library of FHIR and API resources,” he said.
“Smart Forms provide an exciting new way to gather and share data.”
Smart Forms conform to the HL7 FHIR Structured Data Capture and SMART App Launch Implementation Guides. This standardised approach facilitates exchange of electronic health information across a diverse range of platforms.
Declaration of interest: HSD publisher Jeremy Knibbs is a non-executive director of MediRecords.