The delivery of quality healthcare in the modern world is absolutely dependent on the availability of quality information. This is true whether the information comes directly from a clinician, a care coordinator or through an anonymized population analysis. The new HL7® standard, Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR® pronounced “fire”), is attracting enormous interest from the wider healthcare community at a pace unmatched by any previous standard. This paper examines the drivers behind FHIR, gives an overview of what it is, describes how it will benefit healthcare information exchange and provides a prediction on where FHIR is heading.