FHIR Examples For Driving FHIR Ontology Development

To coordinate and speed our efforts, it will be helpful to choose some initial FHIR examples that we can use to drive our FHIR ontology development effort. This would not be to the exclusion of other examples, but merely to act as a common starting point, such as a very simple clinical resource. We will eventually need to use a variety of examples that exercise different features.

Clinical / Observation: Body Weight Measurement

From http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/fhir/observation-example.html

XML 31 lines excluding comments:

<Observation xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <text>
    <status value="generated"/>
    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Jan 30 2014: Body Weight = 185 lbs</div>
  </text>
  <name>
    <coding>
      <system value="http://loinc.org"/>
      <code value="3141-9"/>
      <display value="Weight Measured"/>
    </coding>
    <coding>
      <system value="http://snomed.info/sct"/>
      <code value="27113001"/>
      <display value="Body weight"/>
    </coding>
    <coding>
      <system value="http://acme.org/devices/clinical-codes"/>
      <code value="body-weight"/>
      <display value="Body Weight"/>
    </coding>
  </name>
  <valueQuantity>
    <value value="185"/>
    <units value="lbs"/>
    <system value="http://unitsofmeasure.org"/>
    <code value="[lb_av]"/>
  </valueQuantity>
  <status value="final"/>
  <reliability value="ok"/>
</Observation>

Clinical / Observation: Blood Pressure

Although this example is for a single blood pressure measurement pair (107/60), it is very bloated because it duplicates the information. First it has an Observation that includes both systolic and diastolic values (107/60), but only in human-readable free text -- not in structured data suitable for machine processing. Then it has two more Observations, one for systolic and one for diastolic, which each contain both a human-oriented description in free text and the values in structured data.

JSON 156 lines: http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/fhir/observation-example-bloodpressure.json.html

Clinical / AllergyIntolerance: Bee Sting

JSON 30 lines: http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/fhir/allergyintolerance-examples.html

Clinical / AdverseReaction: Bee Sting

JSON 41 lines: http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/fhir/adversereaction-example.json.html

Administrative / Patient: example-xcda

JSON 39 lines: http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/fhir/patient-example-xcda.json.html

Administrative / Substance: Bee Venom

JSON 10 lines: http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/fhir/substance-example.json.html

Administrative / Practitioner: CCDA Example Author

JSON 18 lines: http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/fhir/practitioner-example-xcda-author.json.html