FAST Policy and Regulatory Barriers

The FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST) has identified regulatory and policy barriers that need to be addressed in order to scale Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) as a ubiquitous capability that enables widescale clinical information exchange between providers, payers, and other stakeholders. These barriers include the HIPAA minimum necessary regulations, the naming of a standard In a way the
limits innovation, the lack of a single patient identifier, and the cost of accessing data via FHIR Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).