About Forms API
Introduction
Welcome to Forms API designed to seamlessly integrate PROMs into your healthcare systems, simplifying the way patient data is managed. Forms API optomizes this process, reducing the complexities associated with integrating PROMs into existing healthcare infrastructure.
With a focus on efficiency, it significantly cuts down development time, providing healthcare professionals with a powerful tool to effortlessly incorporate patient-reported data into their systems. Moreover, Forms API enhances patient engagement through its Smart Reminder service, ensuring timely and personalized interactions that foster active participation in the healthcare journey. Harnessing the latest technologies, Forms API offers a robust solution that not only enhances data integration but also accelerates the overall development lifecycle, empowering healthcare providers to deliver improved patient care with precision and speed.
What is the Forms API?
Use Forms API for efficient management of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) with a seamlessly integrated patient reminder scheduling service (Smart Reminder). Forms API ensures secure retrieval and storage of PROMs forms to promote a streamlined healthcare experience. Built on the foundation of Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), version R4, a standard defined by Health Level Seven (HL7), Forms API facilitates interoperability among different healthcare systems. It is designed to work in tandem with MFX Forms, from PROMs creation, administering patient reminders, to patient response retrieval, which will provide an all-in-one software solution for effective, straightforward PROMs integration into your healthcare workflow.
Key Benefits
FHIR-Based PROMs: Leverage the widely adopted FHIR standard to seamlessly integrate PROMs into your healthcare ecosystem.
Full-Data Management: Benefit from a dynamic and user-friendly experience with our API's robust support for storage and retrieval, streamlining the handling of FHIR questionnaires. The capability to save both FHIR questionnaires and patient responses offers a comprehensive solution, optimizing data management within your healthcare ecosystem.
Simple PROMs Assignment: Easily assign FHIR questionnaires to specific patients, ensuring targeted and personalized healthcare interactions.
Automated Reminder Service: Our API automatically reaches out to patients via email and/or SMS to collect longitudinal FHIR-based data. You can also integrate custom reminder solutions with the Patient Reminder Scheduling Service via webhooks.
Configurable Smart Reminders: Take control of reminder schedules with a configurable scheduler. Define the frequency, timing, and communication channels to meet the criteria of any study or research for hospital protocol.
API Functional Organization
FHIR-based PROMs Library
The MFX API facilitates storage, editing, and retrieval of FHIR-based PROMs and responses from a secure database providing a simple solution for managing healthcare data which can be integrated into your healthcare applications.
The PROMs Library supports:
- Basic CRUD operations on FHIR forms and responses
- FHIR forms and responses repository
Smart Reminder Scheduling Service
The MFX API empowers users to schedule and manage reminders for patients. This feature enhances patient engagement by allowing customized scheduling of reminders through various communication channels, ensuring timely interactions and improved healthcare outcomes.
The scheduling service offers:
- Assigning PROMs to patients
- Configurable PROMs scheduling to be completed by patients
- Configurable patient reminders
- Support for SMS and email notifications
- Support for your custom notification services via webhooks
Background
Historical Healthcare Challenges
Before the introduction of FHIR, hospitals faced challenges related to interoperability and data exchange, as healthcare systems operated in silos with disparate data formats, hindering efficient sharing and communication of patient information across different platforms and institutions. FHIR was developed to address these issues and promote a more standardized approach in the healthcare industry by providing a data standard and modern framework for the exchange of healthcare information, aiming to facilitate unified data sharing and communication among diverse healthcare systems and applications.
Why FHIR?
FHIR is semantic and interoperable in form collection because it provides a standardized and structured approach to healthcare data representation. FHIR utilizes well-defined resources and elements, each carrying a specific semantic meaning, ensuring consistent interpretation across different healthcare systems. This semantic richness allows for precise communication and interpretation of form-related data, fostering interoperability by enabling seamless data exchange and integration between diverse healthcare applications and organizations. The standardized nature of FHIR promotes a common understanding of form data, reducing ambiguity and enhancing the overall efficiency and accuracy of form collection processes in the healthcare domain.
Why use our FHIR Forms API?
Forms API serves as a transformative solution in the healthcare application ecosystem, strategically designed to minimize redundant efforts and streamline PROMs data management. By offering an out-of-the-box solution for PROMs, built on FHIR, creation, collection, and storage, it eliminates the need for healthcare developers to reinvent the wheel. This comprehensive approach significantly reduces redundancy in the development lifecycle, allowing healthcare professionals to focus their efforts on providing quality patient care rather than spending excessive time on intricate data management tasks. By seamlessly integrating PROMs into the workflow, our API not only enhances efficiency but also ensures the uniformity and accuracy of healthcare data, contributing to a more cohesive and interoperable experience.
Forms API Coupled with MFX Forms Provides a Synergistic PROMs Solution
Forms API was specifically designed to integrate with MFX Forms, creating a comprehensive PROMs solution that spans the entire lifecycle of patient-form management. It empowers users to effortlessly create customized PROMs forms, save them, and administer them to patients with ease. The integrated Smart Reminder feature enhances user engagement by prompting patients to complete assigned forms, ensuring consistent and timely data collection. This holistic solution not only simplifies the process of managing PROMs but also significantly increases patient participation, contributing to more effective and patient-centric healthcare.