Preface
FHIR stands for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources. FHIR is a way to make sharing healthcare data easier and safer. This post will focus on introducing FHIR concepts specifically for developers.
FHIR have a really good documentation here.
I personally like to work with JSON, so all the examples and explanations on this blog will be based on JSON structure since that feels to me like an easier structure to grasp.
Thank you for reading, and enjoy exploring FHIR from a developer’s perspective!
What is FHIR?
Like I already said, FHIR stands for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources. But what does that mean? It’s a standard developed by HL7 (Health Level Seven International). It is designed to facilitate the exchange of healthcare information between different systems. FHIR defines a set of “resources” (data structures) that represent various healthcare concepts, such as patients, medications, and observations.
A crude example