Introduction to FHIR as data formats

About the documentation

What this is about

• A guide to get you started. Hopefully, we will help you understand usage of FHIR, in context of reference stack, starting from the absolute basics to more advanced usages.
• Document the least resistant way to get you going.
• Provide examples, list useful tooling, resources, links etc.
• Provide a means to solicit feedbacks and improvements, demonstrate usages, leverage expert opinions

What this is not about

• Not a dumbed down version of FHIR documentation. Please visit the HL7 FHIR website to get the most comprehensive guide of understanding and using FHIR.
• The reference stack is not a FHIR Server. We use FHIR as means to solve syntactic interoperability - making the data machine readable. If you want the information to be machine interoperable, then you ought to be using FHIR in conjunction with clinical terminology mappings (e.g SNOMED-CT, LOINC etc)
• Not a means of providing metadata, coding, terminology references. Please refer to India or other country specific guides for such information.
• Not a means of support. You may raise a github issue if you find something wrong, or even better a Pull request. Thanks in advance for that.

What types of health information do we support

• The reference stack can process and render the 4 types of FHIR resource - Observation, Condition (Problem), DiagnosticReport, MedicationRequest. Click on the links to check the comprehensive documentation of individual resources.
• We do not intend to stop with the above of course. It is evolving, and we would appreciate if you would want to contribute and support more FHIR resource types. Our immediate target is to support - DocumentReference, Discharge Summary

Lets get started

1. Your first FHIR PHR data packet/envelope
2. Sending Reports as bare bone media attachment