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1.0 FHIR Documentation Index

This page provides an index to the FHIR Documentation. In addition to this documentation, there are implementation assistance (which has important information about how to use FHIR in practice), and the list of resources.

Administration

Documentation Guidance / Background.

Full Table of Contents
Documentation Guidance & Glossary
License and Legal Terms
Community & Credits
Version History
Outstanding Issues

Overview

Background and Tutorial Information.

1 page Summary (Glossy)
Overview & Roadmap
Developer's Introduction
Clinical Introduction
FHIR Timelines
Inter-version Compatibility

Resources

Underlying Definitions for Resources.

Base Resource
Conformance Rules
Resource Life Cycles
References between Resources
Compartments (Patient based access)
Narrative
Extensibility & Extension Registry
Formats:
- XML
- JSON
- RDF
Data Types
Infrastructure Types:
FluentPath
Ontology

Terminologies

How codes, systems and value sets are used, and registries of known terminology resources

Using Codes in Resources
Code Systems
Value Set List
Mappings between Value sets
Identifier Registry
+ see the Terminology Service API

Appendices:

Comparison with other HL7 Specifications
How FHIR fits into an EHR
Coming Challenges Driving Change