Microsoft Healthcare has launched an open source project on GitHub called FHIR Server for Azure, aimed at helping developers to integrate a FHIR server into their application or customise a unique FHIR service.

Microsoft Healthcare general manager Heather Jordan Cartwright said FHIR, first developed by Melbourne-based health informatician Grahame Grieve, was rapidly gaining support in the healthcare community as the next generation standards framework for interoperability.