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.

Agendas

• Baltimore WGM

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/ (subversion: http://gforge.hl7.org/svn/fhir/trunk)
• FHIR Development Process documents FHIR methodology
• Process to create: FHIR resource proposals
• List of Discussion pages:
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  • All

Governance

• FHIR Governance Board
• FHIR Management Group

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
• FHIR Principles

Implementation Resources

• Publicly Available FHIR Servers for testing
• Open Source FHIR implementations
• FHIR Connectathon 2 (Jan 12/13, 2013)

Workgroup pages

• Patient Administration Resource development