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Modern eHealth infrastructures are composed of a multitude of digital systems that process information from business processes in the health care sector. These systems need to exchange data in order to comprehensively support a patients journey through the health care system. Ambiguous, contradicting or misinterpreted data can harm a patients life in the worst case. Therefore interoperability standards are needed to harmonize the data exchange among all involved systems. As a secondary effect, FHIR defines and unifies technical terms on the domain level.
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FHIR® – Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (hl7.org/fhir) – is a next generation standards framework created by HL7. FHIR combines the best features of HL7's v2 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. (Source: HL7-FHIR, Release 3) |
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HL7 FHIR resources are structured in modules (not to be confused with openIMIS modules) on five levels. the following table will provide links to the resources and modules in their respective version and list the ones that are relevant for openIMIS.
Level | Modules | Resource | Modules | Resource | openIMIS |
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5 | Providing the ability to reason about the healthcare process | ||||
4 | Record-keeping and Data Exchange for the healthcare process | ||||
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3 | Linking to real world concepts in the healthcare system | ||||
2 | Supporting implementation and binding to external specifications | ||||
1 | Basic framework on which the specification is built | ||||