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Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for API 2024
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FHIR® is the leading open health standard for data exchange in the world. FHIR APIs are a mechanism to simplify complex, large volume data exchange across the boundaries of proprietary health IT systems.
This Gartner report identifies the market drivers, business impacts, obstacles as well as recommendations for healthcare organizations evaluating data modernization through FHIR APIs. The report lists Smile as a Sample Vendor for this critical capability.
The Gartner report outlines the following obstacles with FHIR APIs:
Authentication and authorization approaches vary, threatening privacy. No centrally maintained FHIR endpoint directory exists.
FHIR standards are constantly evolving, creating a moving target for implementation and maintenance.
HCLS coreclinical and administrativesystems innovation happens slowly or not at all. Substantial market or regulatory pressureis needed for vendors (particularly mature vendors with large market share) to support FHIR APIs before they achieve widespread adoption.
HCLS organizations typically have sprawling data environments that would require heavy financial and resource investment to adopt a new way of encoding health data
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Smile Digital Health is a FHIR API Sample Vendor listed in the 2024 Gartner® Hype Cycle for API.
How Smile’s Solutions Accelerate Data Modernization While Mitigating Obstacles
Smile’s implementation strategy builds compliance the right way, from the ground up, utilizing FHIR APIs at the data ingestion and integration phases. A true healthcare modernization strategy consolidates data, workflows and operations, without compromising security, mega-volume performance and scalability. The modularity and flexibility of a FHIR-native solution maintains a single source-of-truth repository and integrates the network (including third-party apps) to provide accurate, real-time data when required. Added benefits include lowered time to value for data-sharing initiatives across the health ecosystem, and the ability to establish collaborative and reusable clinical practice guidelines in real-time. Regardless of how sprawling your data environments might be, Smile can help you create a trustworthy, structured data source.
Why Choose Smile
Smile Digital Health is the maintainer of HAPI FHIR—the world’s prevailing open source reference implementation of FHIR. Smile actively leads and participates in over 31 Implementation Guide (IG) Working Groups including Da Vinci PDex (Payer Data Exchange) and CARIN—the framework that outlines how to integrate third party consumer apps into FHIR in accordance with CMS Patient Access API Rules. So you can trust that as the FHIR standard evolves, Smile’s experts will be leading the charge.
Smile is the first company to receive the voluntary Drummond certification that affirms End-to-End Functionality to Support U.S. Health Interoperability Standards. As cybersecurity threats and risks evolve, achieving and maintaining privacy, security and risk management certifications beyond industry requirements, ensures we stay at the leading edge of health IT.
Smile is an award-winning health technology company with FHIR-powered solutions like the Health Data Platform, and complete CMS suite for the CMS-0057-F Rule. Smile has completed over 160 global implementations, as well as over 20 implementations for U.S. payers seeking CMS compliance solutions.
Our experience and expertise enables us to provide solutions for health data modernization and compliance requirements, while investing in strategies to mitigate the obstacles identified in Gartner’s report.
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Gartner, Hype Cycle for APIs, 2024, Mark O'Neill, John Santoro, 2 July 2024 GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally, and HYPE CYCLE is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.