In the evolving landscape of healthcare, Clinical Operations (Clinical Ops) play a critical role in ensuring the efficient delivery of patient care, from patient registration and scheduling to diagnostics, treatment, and follow-up care. As the complexity of healthcare processes continues to grow, so does the need for streamlined workflows.

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Workflow Automation and FHIR : Keys to Productivity

Integrating automation not only accelerates processes. It also enhances the overall quality of patient care and reduces errors. By automating routine tasks, healthcare professionals can focus more on patient interaction and critical decision-making, ultimately leading to improved outcomes.

The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard has emerged as a game-changer in healthcare IT. FHIR is an interoperability standard designed to facilitate the exchange of healthcare information seamlessly. Leveraging FHIR for workflow automation provides a stable integration target, offering unique opportunities to standardize processes across diverse healthcare systems. We have written before about why we choose to see FHIR as a starting point for many healthcare solutions.

Introducing the bonFHIR n8n Connector

At Toboggan Labs, we are committed to democratizing and simplifying the implementation of complex clinical ops workflows. We understand the challenges faced by healthcare organizations in achieving seamless integration and efficient data exchange. To address these challenges, we have developed the bonFHIR n8n Connector.

The bonFHIR n8n Connector is a powerful tool designed to bridge the gap between n8n, a visually intuitive workflow automation tool, and FHIR data sources. n8n allows users to design and execute workflows effortlessly, offering a vast range of pre-built integrations (e.g. email, Twilio, Zendesk, Google Sheets) to move and transform data between different applications and services.

We chose n8n because it is both a very powerful platform and it can be self-hosted, so it can be deployed in a HIPAA compliant way. We also believe it strikes a nice balance between a pure visual workflow editor and a code-first approach. It also has a thriving community of developers, and a license that should work for most healthcare use cases we see.

With this, it is now easier than ever to create and deploy workflows!

You can connect to any FHIR server. And with the power of FHIR Subscriptions, you can react to any change in FHIR resources so triggering execution is also easy!

Get started now!

We offer a simple tutorial where you can learn the basics of building a workflow: https://bonfhir.dev/docs/build-workflows-with-n8n.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ0-lLY\_E9Y

Try it now! And while you are at it, do not hesitate to explore all the other components that bonFHIR provides!

Finally, reach out if you have any question or need to implement such a solution.