FHIR

Introduction

Welcome to the FHIR wiki - the home for the FHIR development team.

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR, pronounced "Fire") defines a set of "Resources" that represent granular clinical concepts. The resources can be managed in isolation, or aggregated into complex documents. This flexibility offers coherent solutions for a range of interoperability problems. The simple direct definitions of the resources are based on thorough requirements gathering, formal analysis and extensive cross-mapping to other relevant standards. A workflow management layer provides support for designing, procuring, and integrating solutions. Technically, FHIR is designed for the web; the resources are based on simple XML, with an http-based RESTful protocol where each resource has predictable URL. Where possible, open internet standards are used for data representation.

FHIR Development Links

FHIR development discussions take place on the FHIR email list FHIR email list subscription instructions, and here on this wiki:

• The current specification: http://www.HL7.org/fhir/
• gForge home: http://gforge.hl7.org/gf/project/fhir/
• Official Guide to Authoring FHIR Resources
• Process to create: FHIR resource proposals
• List of Discussion pages:
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Hot Topics

The following discussions are likely to be of interest to most FHIR participants

• FHIR Project planning
• FHIR Resource Considerations
• FHIR Resource Types
• FHIR Governance
• FHIR Design Requirements Sources
• FHIR license

Implementation Resources

• Publicly Available FHIR Servers for testing
• Open Source FHIR implementations
• FHIR Connectathon (Sept.8, 2012)

Workgroup pages

• Patient Administration Resource development