Understanding HL7 FHIR

As a contributor the the eHealth ecosystem, you will need to familiarize yourself with the basics of the HL7 FHIR standard. Numerous introductions are available on the internet, but using the links below, you can find documentation that is relevant to the eHealth Infrastructure.

• FHIR for Architects

Official FHIR Introduction for Architects

• FHIR for Developers

Official FHIR Introduction for Developers

• General introduction

  • Datatypes
    
    • Primitive data types, that add a primitive value property of the specified type
    • Complex data types, that add their own children (all of which are also elements)
    • BackboneElement, A specialization that adds modifierExtension, which is the super-type of all the element types defined in resource definitions (e.g. contact)                                  
• Terminology
  • Official FHIR Terminology Module
  • FHIR Terminology binding strength - required vs cardinality

• Introduction Videos

  The Australian Government have published an easy to follow video introducing FHIR from a consumer system point-of-view:	The video below explains the history of HL7 an FHIR up until now. This includes an introduction from an developers point of view:

Overview of eHealth FHIR API

The eHealth Infrastructure administrative and clinical resources are modelled as FHIR Resources with a Restful API. A general introduction to the services can be found here:

• APIs and Events
• Supported search operations
  • Supported search operations are dependent on the FHIR resource and the security model implemented. A genera introduction on how to search for resources can be found here:
    Search operations 

Related pages

• Page:
  Getting started with HL7 FHIR