IDENTOS extends commitment to FHIR interoperability, joins FAST initiative

Leveraging extensive FHIR project experience, IDENTOS officially joins FAST for broader industry impact

IDENTOS Inc., a leader in enabling secure access to healthcare and government digital services, demonstrates its deep commitment to advancing healthcare interoperability through its long-standing contributions to the FHIR community, including Clinical Data Repository (CDR) implementations, HL7 Connectathons, and FHIR DevDays. Today, the company announced it has joined the HL7® FHIR® at Scale Taskforce (FAST) as a sponsored member, supported by Smile Digital Health.

Powering the Future of Healthcare Data Exchange Through FAST

The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) at Scale Taskforce (FAST) initiative addresses critical FHIR scalability gaps to enable a consistent, national approach to clinical data exchange. Launched in late 2017, FAST focuses on building the essential infrastructure needed for widespread FHIR adoption.

While other HL7 Accelerators and workgroups develop specific functional use cases, FAST provides foundational solutions for challenges like endpoint discovery, identity management, patient matching, consent management and secure authentication. This means other groups can leverage FAST's work instead of individually solving these common barriers, accelerating the overall interoperability journey for everyone.

IDENTOS's Key Contributions to FAST

IDENTOS is expanding its foundational involvement, now actively contributing to two pivotal FAST projects:

• Consent Management (FAST Consent): This project focuses on developing a scalable, patient-centric framework for the efficient administration and collection of consent, supporting secure and policy-aligned healthcare data exchange.

• Interoperable Digital Identity and Patient Matching (FAST Identity): Leveraging the latest industry considerations, FAST Identity is building best practices and recommendations for identity matching services and key performance indicators, alongside identity assurance for an appropriate, national, standards-based approach to individual identity matching.

By joining FAST, IDENTOS aims to:

• Drive industry standards and implementation: Actively contribute to defining and implementing the next generation of healthcare data exchange standards.

• Enhance community collaboration and client service: Leverage IDENTOS's deep experience to directly support the broader healthcare community, fostering alignment with world-class experts and expanding our capacity to better serve our clients.

• Streamline industry-wide solutions: Collaborate to address common implementation barriers across the healthcare ecosystem.

• Foster ubiquitous FHIR adoption: Promote the development of scalable FHIR solutions that facilitate secure, real-time data exchange among the right stakeholders at the right time.

• Align IDENTOS products with key standards: Ensure IDENTOS solutions are at the forefront of industry best practices and interoperability requirements.

"Our extensive hands-on experience in the FHIR community, from DevDays to Connectathons, has consistently reinforced our conviction that true interoperability is vital for transforming healthcare. Joining the FAST initiative is a natural progression for IDENTOS, allowing us to deepen our commitment to championing seamless and secure data exchange and directly contribute to the development of practical, scalable FHIR solutions that benefit the entire industry."

–Shri Kalyanasundaram, Chief Strategy & Product Officer, IDENTOS

“We’re thrilled to welcome IDENTOS to FAST as a sponsored member. Smile Digital Health is proud to support IDENTOS’s engagement in this critical initiative. Their deep expertise in secure digital identity and consent management, combined with their active involvement in the FHIR community, will be invaluable as we advance foundational infrastructure to support scalable FHIR solutions. Sponsoring IDENTOS into FAST allows them to further engage with and contribute to the collective efforts driving nationwide interoperability.”

— Duncan Weatherston, CEO, Smile Digital Health

Strengthening a Portfolio of Trust and Compliance

This deepened commitment to the FAST initiative further strengthens IDENTOS’s dedication to advancing interoperability, complementing its robust portfolio of security credentials. It reinforces the organization's dedication to excellence, security, and customer confidence in its solutions and managed services.

To learn more about the technology and standards IDENTOS works with, visit: https://www.identos.com/partners.