This page is part of the Symptoms Data Standards (v1.0.0: STU 1) based on FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) R4. This is the current published version. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

Reading This IG

Underlying Technologies

This guide is based on the HL7 FHIR standard. Implementers of this specification therefore need to understand some basic information about these specifications.

FHIR

This implementation guide uses terminology, notations and design principles that are specific to FHIR. Before reading this implementation guide, it's important to be familiar with some of the basic principles of FHIR, as well as general guidance on how to read FHIR specifications. Readers who are unfamiliar with FHIR are encouraged to read (or at least skim) the following prior to reading the rest of this implementation guide.

• FHIR Overview
• Developer's Introduction (or Clinical Introduction)
• FHIR Data Types
• Using Codes
• References between Resources
• How to Read Resource & Profile Definitions and additional IG reading guidance
• Base Resource

This implementation guide supports the R4 version of the FHIR standard.

Implementers should familiarize themselves with the Observation resource since the Symptoms model profiles this resource.