This article from the EMR & HIPPA website discusses the issue of interoperability – its causes and potential benefits if more fully realized. It specifically calls out a promising solution, the uses of the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR and pronounced fire). FHIR is a proposed standard from the Health Level Seven International (HL7) standards developing organization. FHIR uses a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) to access and store healthcare data in a format specified by resources, also defined by the FHIR specification. FHIR is a specification worth watching and learning in the ongoing attempt to address the interoperability issue with healthcare data.