FHIR Patient Care Resources

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This wiki page contains information related to a set of activities initiated March 2014 to facilitate contributions by PCWG members for continuous improvements of FHIR clinical DSTU resources, and to develop new FHIR clinical resources to meet stakeholder requirements.

Introduction

FHIR® – Fast Health Interoperable Resources (hl7.org/fhir) – is a next generation standards framework created by HL7. FHIR combines the best features of HL7’s Version 2, Version 3 and CDA® product lines while leveraging the latest web standards and applying a tight focus on implementability.

FHIR solutions are built from a set of modular components called “Resources”. These resources can easily be assembled into working systems that solve real world clinical and administrative problems at a fraction of the price of existing alternatives. FHIR is suitable for use in a wide variety of contexts – mobile phone apps, cloud communications, EHR-based data sharing, server communication in large institutional healthcare providers, and much more
http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/fhir/summary.html

A number of FHIR clinical resources were developed, passed ballots and reached DSTU status in January 2014.
http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/fhir/clinical.html
These clinical resources are under stewardship of PCWG:

1. Adverse Reaction

2. Allergy Intolerance

3. Care Plan

4. Condition

5. Family History

6. Procedure

7. Questionnaire

PCWG works closely with FHIR team to provide clinical and clinical informatics (and where appropriate, engineering) inputs to help continuous improvement of these resources

PCWG members also work closely with FHIR team to develop new FHIR clinical resources

This is the landing page providing interested parties with relevant information on these activities

Leadership

• PCWG:

All PCWG co-chairs

• FHIR liaison for PCWG:

David Hay

Conference Call Details and Minutes

Conference call: Audio and Webex

• Audio details:

Phone Number: +1 770-657-9270

Participant Passcode: 943377

• WebEx details:

(to be inserted here)

PCWG FHIR Conference Calls and Meeting Minutes

Learning and Tooling Resources

Presentations:
http://gforge.hl7.org/gf/project/fhir/scmsvn/?action=browse&path=%2Ftrunk%2Fpresentations%2F

Developing PCWG FHIR Resources - Processes:
The steps are as follows:

1. Put together a PSS and get it approved through the usual channels.

2. Write up a resource proposal and submit it to the FMG. The template is here:

http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=Template:FHIR_Resource_Proposal

3. Create resource. Instructions are here:

http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=FHIR_Guide_to_Authoring_Resources

4. Run the build. Instructions are here:

http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=FHIR_Build_Process

Just keep in mind during #2 the onus will be on PCWG to explain how that will work better for implementers

(NOTE - Lloyd, Grahame, Ewort and David: to provide tutorial ppts, etc)

New Projects

Referral and Transition of care project details to be inserted here