Release 5 Ballot

This page is part of the FHIR Specification (v5.0.0-ballot: FHIR R5 Ballot Preview). The current version which supercedes this version is 5.0.0. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions . Page versions: R5 R4B R4 R3

Work Group FHIR Infrastructure & Application Implementation and Design Standards Status: Informative

7.0 Implementation Support Module

7.0.1 Introduction

This section provides information which will be useful for FHIR implementers, including information about available libraries, tools, and other similar resources, as well as where to seek help.

7.0.2 Index

In addition to the content below, a number of implementation resources can be found on the Downloads Page.

This module also contains some specific documentation that relates to issues commonly encountered by developers:

7.0.3 Security and Privacy

For more general considerations, see the Security and Privacy module.

7.0.4 Common Use Cases

7.0.4.1 For Client Developers and Testers: Reference Servers

The HL7 Confluence has a list of public test servers that have been created by the FHIR community and made available to help implementers test their code. While the reference servers are not considered to be a normative part of the FHIR specification, the maintainers make every effort to ensure that they are fully compliant.

7.0.4.2 For Developers: Reference Implementations (Libraries)

The HL7 Confluence has a list of open source FHIR implementations . These libraries may be used by developers to quickly add FHIR capabilities to their applications.

7.0.4.3 For Profilers

A number of tools are available to profilers wishing to create profiles for use in their implementations. A current list of tools can be found here on HL7 Confluence. (See the conformance module for information on profiling.)

7.0.4.4 For Testers

A number of tools are available to solution testers who want to test FHIR implementations for conformance to the FHIR specification. A current list of such tools can be found here .

7.0.5 Getting Help

The following are a few ways that implementers can seek help as they work with FHIR:

7.0.6 Developmental Roadmap

The reference servers and reference implementations generally try to keep up to date with recent changes to the FHIR specification. Each server may have multiple endpoints which are held to a specific version of the specification, but generally there will also be endpoints available for testing which conform to a very recent build.

Efforts are now underway to create a curated collection of quality test data which can be used by FHIR implementers to help test their applications. This collection will be made available when it is ready.