Rimidi, Inc. Board of Directors member, Mark Braunstein, MD, is also a long-time advisor to the company. He is Professor of the Practice Emeritus at Georgia Tech where he developed a unique health Informatics graduate seminar in which student teams work under the mentorship of a domain expert to develop a FHIR app to solve a problem they posed. He is currently serving as Visiting Scientist at the Australian eHealth Research Centre in Brisbane. He recently published the second edition of his textbook Health Informatics on FHIR: How HL7’s API is Transforming Healthcare.
The CDS Hooks API is a new specification that builds on FHIR, describing how EHRs can automatically invoke external platforms or apps. For the first time, by CDS Hooks invoking FHIR apps, EHR-only users can have insights relevant to the clinical situation and within their EHR workflow based on data sourced outside of it. CDS Hooks is potentially a powerful way to ensure that all patient data can be accessed via the EHR.