FHIR

Introduction

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

If you're looking for the FHIR specification, you can find it here: http://hl7.org/fhir

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® is a registered HL7 Trademark.

More help and Asking Questions

There are a number of ways that you can get specific help when using FHIR, in addition to the specification:

• There is a FHIR FAQ which addresses questions from both business and technical perspectives
• There is a lot of information in this wiki
• The HL7 List server is a good place to ask general questions
• Each resource in the specification has a Community page linked to it
• Each resource has extensive examples
• There are a number of Skype conversations about FHIR - one developed to implementers and very closely monitored (To Join, ask David by email [1], or by skype to david.hay25). This is good for urgent inquiries.
• We are starting to use the Stack Overflow on-line application (use the tag hl7-fhir) as this is a very common source of information for developers, and the information there is very easy to find

Agendas

• Boston WGM
• Atlanta WGM
• Phoenix WGM
• 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:
  • Active
  • All

Governance

• FHIR Governance Process
• 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)
• FHIR Connectathon 3 (May 4/5, 2013)
• FHIR Connectathon 4 (Sep 21/22, 2013)
• FHIR Connectathon 5 (Jan 18/19, 2013)
• Skype conversation for implementers (To Join, ask David by email [2], or by skype (david.hay25))
• Organizations interested in FHIR

Workgroup pages

• Patient Administration Resource development
• CDA to FHIR Samples Group