FHIR Station

Ready for the data accessibility of tomorrow

With our FHIR Station, you have a central point of contact to unlock various data sources in your healthcare organisation for applications and services that support FHIR. Your organisation is prepared for the data exchanges of the future:

exchange with other healthcare facilities and the government
communication with patients
interaction with (mobile) health apps

Standardised and controlled data disclosure with FHIR Station

Within the healthcare organisation, the FHIR Station acts as a central and uniform point of contact to query and unlock various underlying modelled data sources in a FHIR-compliant manner.

The FHIR Station standardises communication between the data sources and hides the complexity of these sources. All translations are performed transparently and without any end-user intervention.

Robust security framework:
Authorised users have a clear interface to define fine-grained access rules for unlocking data in a controlled and secure way, according to the FHIR standard. For example, you can share only specific patient data linked to clinical admissions during a specific period.
Pseudonymisation and de-identification of patient data:
You can seamlessly combine the above security rules with algorithms that guarantee the de-identification and pseudonymisation of sensitive patient information. You then remove (or replace) the personal data that can be traced back to the patient, and link the remaining data to a unique code that can only be traced back to the specific patient in the hospital. This way, you not only ensure controlled access to medical data, but can also share patient data with other parties while respecting patient privacy.
Tailor-made internal governance process:
You can define the various steps each role (DPO, IT department, ethics committee etc.) needs to take to grant access to a data source in compliance with applicable regulations (GDPR etc.), and make this process enforceable. The entire process is also documented and thus demonstrable.
Monitoring of all activities:
Any interaction with the FHIR Station is carefully recorded in a central audit component for all incoming and outgoing data streams. In other words, you can for each interaction with the FHIR Station find out who accessed which personal data, and when. If unusual behaviour is detected, you can intervene immediately if necessary.

Amaron has already created interfaces between countless systems in many healthcare institutions, so we are familiar with their messaging requirements and situations. This familiarity allows us to easily set up a FHIR Station in your organisation, to open up the world of HL7 V2 messages to new applications and services that support FHIR.

Use case

A hospital has a central data source (FHIR Repository) containing all patient data. A mobile app used by the cardiology department requires patient data to be unlocked from this data source. To respect patient privacy, the hospital only wants to share data from patients admitted to the cardiology department. All this is possible with the FHIR Station:

The FHIR Station is the central point of contact to unlock patient data from the central data source. The access rules are established to grant access only to a well-defined set of relevant data.
Interactions with the FHIR Station follow the latest industry standards for optimal patient data security.
The FHIR Station also ensures that every communication flow can be accurately traced. This allows the hospital to document and demonstrate each interaction with patient data.

FHIR: HL7’s most recent standard framework

The traditional standards for data exchange in healthcare (including HL7 and DICOM) are still highly relevant today. But in addition, there is the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard, which is gaining ground at lightning speed.

FHIR is much more flexible than its HL7 predecessors, and is ideal for all types of unambiguous communication in healthcare. Furthermore, the use of existing, easy-to-access web technology (REST) has led to plenty of opportunities, particularly in mobile apps and other internet applications for patients and healthcare providers, whether in the hospital, at home or in the field.

FHIR Station

Ready for the data accessibility of tomorrow

Standardised and controlled data disclosure with FHIR Station

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FHIR: HL7’s most recent standard framework

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