Cerner has announced a collaboration with Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Health System and xG Health Solutions to use SMART-on-FHIR standards to use software applications across open platform EHRs.
SMART on FHIR is a new draft standard that allows software applications to be used on "open platform" EHR systems.
Through the newly announced collaboration, Geisinger and xG Health, a company spun out of Geisinger, will deploy their apps to run on Cerner's Millenium EHR system and other FHIR-compliant EHR systems.
"SMART on FHIR creates an important new kind of interoperability," said David McCallie Jr., MD, senior vice president of medical informatics at Cerner. "Application interoperability will enable innovative developers to reach a broader market of potential users, while at the same time enabling open platform EHR suppliers to provide a more robust set of offerings to their clients."
The three organizations first piloted a Geisinger-developed, web-based app for managing ambulatory rheumatology encounters on this new system in October 2014. The tested EnrG | Rheum app is expected to be made available this summer.
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