Interoperability Improvement of Mobile Patient Survey (MoPat) Implementing Fast Health Interoperability Resources (FHIR)

Despite the advances in health information technology and the increasing usage of electronic systems, syntactic and semantic interoperability between different health information systems remains challenging. An emerging standard to tackle interoperability issues is HL7 FHIR, which uses modern web technologies for communication like Representational State Transfer. The electronic patient reported outcome system Mobile Patient Survey (MoPat) was adapted to support metadata import and clinical data export using HL7 FHIR. Thereby, the data models of HL7 FHIR and MoPat were compared and the existing import and export functions of MoPat were extended to support HL7 FHIR. A test protocol including eight test datasets to proof functioning of the new features was successfully conducted. In the near future, a real time searching toolbar of FHIR metadata resources will be integrated within MoPat. MoPat FHIR import and export functions are ready to be used in a clinical setting in combination with a FHIR compliant clinical data server.