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EHR INTEGRATION

What is SMART on FHIR?

SMART on FHIR is an open standard that lets a clinical application connect to any EHR that supports it. FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) is the HL7 standard for exchanging health data as resources such as Patient, Encounter, Observation, MedicationRequest and DocumentReference. SMART (Substitutable Medical Applications, Reusable Technologies) adds the security layer on top: OAuth 2.0 authorization, so a user grants an application scoped access, and launch context, so an application opened from inside the EHR knows who is using it. Under the 21st Century Cures Act, certified EHRs expose a standardized FHIR API that such applications can use. Burna AI uses clinician-level SMART scopes: each clinician authorizes Burna AI against their own EHR account and reaches only the patients they are already permitted to see, through the same pattern an IT team supports for its other SMART applications.

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