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 (http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/fhir/adversereaction.html)

2. Allergy Intolerance (http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/fhir/allergyintolerance.html)

3. Care Plan (http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/fhir/careplan.html)

4. Condition (http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/fhir/condition.html)

5. Family History (http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/fhir/familyhistory.html)

6. Procedure (http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/fhir/procedure.html)

7. Questionnaire (http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/fhir/questionnaire.html)

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:

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PCWG FHIR Conference Calls and Meeting Minutes

FHIR Resources

The FHIR team has produced a number of resources that are useful for those who are interested in learning about FHIR, to explore and develop domain specific FHIR resources

Here are the links to some very useful resources:

• FHIR Learning and Tooling Resources

• FHIR Profiles

• FHIR Mappings

New PCWG FHIR Resource Projects

PCWG is collaborating with FHIR team to develop a set of PCWG domain specific FHIR resources that are intended to meet the requirements of its stakeholders.

The list of Resources include:

Referral and Transition/Transfer of Care

Place holder for other PCWG specific FHIR Resources

FHIR Clinical Connectathon

The FHIR Clinical Connectathon are a set of clinician led activities designed to test the clinical validity, accuracy, usuability ... of FHIR Clinical Resources

The idea was suggested by the FHIR team to co-chairs of Patient Care Workgroup. It was well received and a small "FHIR Clinical Connectathon Group" was form.

The first FHIR-PCWG clinical connectathon group meeting was held during Tuesday Lunch quarter at the May 2015 (Phoenix) WGM.

Details of this meeting can be access through this link:

http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=May_2014_WGM_Phoenix:_May_4_to_May_9#Patient_Care_Tuesday_Lunch_Quarter

The following link provides more details about this initiative.

FHIR Clinical Connectathon Initiative