SMART on FHIR apps helps patients stick to their medication schedules by offering refill reminders, identifying potential drug interactions, and tracking whether they take their medications as prescribed., 6. SMART on FHIR Applications Use Case: These apps run seamlessly within existing EHR systems and address specific clinical needs. Examples: Growth Chart App: Monitors pediatric development. BP Centiles App: Analyzes blood pressure readings for clinical insights., Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) are databases deployed in each US state to track controlled substance prescriptions in that state. PDMPs provide health authorities timely information about prescribing and patient behaviors., FHIR (pronounced as “fire”) stands for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources. It’s an open standard developed by HL7 (Health Level Seven International) to facilitate seamless data exchange in healthcare. To use an analogy, imagine that a patient's medication details are like a person travelling from one country to another., SMART on FHIR enables apps to plug directly into EHR systems like Epic EHR, Cerner EHR, and Athenahealth EHR. That means healthcare teams can access key insights—medication history, lab results, and vitals—without jumping between systems or duplicating data. For providers, it’s not just about access., Azure Text Analytics for Health employs a powerful combination of NLP and healthcare-specific machine learning models to identify and extract medical entities from clinical text, detect relations between entities, detect assertions and link the extracted entities to clinical ontologies..