HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is a next-generation interoperability standard created by the standards development organization Health Level 7 (HL7®). HL7 FHIR is designed to enable health data, including clinical and administrative data, to be quickly and efficiently exchanged.
Healthcare records are increasingly becoming digitized. As patients move around the healthcare ecosystem, their electronic health records must be available, discoverable, and understandable. Further, to support automated clinical decision support and other machine-based processing, the data must also be structured and standardized. HL7 FHIR is a specification based on emerging industry approaches, but informed by years of lessons around requirements, successes and challenges gained through defining and implementing other HL7 standards. HL7 FHIR can be used as a stand-alone data exchange standard, but can and will also be used in partnership with existing widely used standards. FHIR leverages existing logical and theoretical models to provide a consistent, easy to implement, and rigorous mechanism for exchanging data between healthcare applications.
HL7 FHIR is used deeply and widely by key global health, digital health, electronic health record and interoperability stakeholders across the world. For example, some key user groups are healthcare providers and workers, government stakeholders, public health officials, private sector innovators, payers, pharmaceutical companies, lab and diagnostic leaders, quality improvement experts and health equity trailblazers. For user topics and work areas, see here.
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CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication
D2 | D2 Data interchange and interoperability
A5 | A5 Electronic medical record systems
D6 | D6 Health management information systems (HMIS)
A6 | A6 Laboratory information systems
D8 | D8 Shared Health Record and Health Information Repositories
HL7 FHIR is used in every corner of the globe, currently in 74 countries as detailed below. Adoption varies from mature implementations with FHIR embedded in national and regional health programs to introductory use. It is employed in a wide variety of settings and for many aspects of healthcare delivery and the supply chain. HL7 expert Work Group topics provide a good lenses through which to understand how HL7 FHIR is developed and deployed. A list of these HL7 Work Groups can be found here.
The United Kingdom and the United States reference HL7 FHIR requirements in national health programs, while Australia, Kenya, Argentina and Spain include HL7 FHIR as part of pre- or in-service training programs.
For more information on the HL7 FHIR standard, see
https://www.hl7.org/fhir/overview.html
and for more about how HL7 FHIR supports conformance testing of IHE workflows and profiles, see:
https://registry.fhir.org/results?query=%22ihe%22&latestFilter=true
The content has been reviewed/quality assured. For details about the process see the following:
https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/ansi.html
https://www.hl7.org/documentcenter/public/membership/ANSI_Essential_Requirements.pdf
HL7 FHIR
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https://www.hl7.org/participate/case-studies/index.cfm?rev=nav
Master Index of Scientific Articleshttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4928801/hl7_fhir/collections/7MQ854T6
The HL7 FHIR community is diverse and operates in both developed and LMIC country contexts. Please see https://chat.fhir.org/stat
Please see HL7 International Council and Affiliates here: https://www.hl7.org/Special/committees/international/leadership.cfm?ref=nav
The community has been in existence since 2012 and currently there are 25,000 plus users on Zulip .The governance structure is documented here and information about HL7 FHIR community engagement can be found at: https://fhir.org/community/process/.
The content is managed by Health Level Seven International http://www.hl7.org. The content is supported / sustained financially through member dues and services. Key funders/investors of the work over the past 5 years are HL7 members and U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
