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I am a programmer and I am new at my company. I am trying to populate a FHIR resource with simple key/value pairs that we use to communicate with a "sister IIS" that we also write. All we need to do is to send two strings across.

But when I try to look through the FHIR spec on the appropriate resource to use, I am confused.

Brian Hart
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Parts of this should probably be a comment, but apparently I don't rank high enough to do that.

FHIR is premised on the idea of exchanging specific "collections" of information that represent real-world business objects that have state and can reasonably be manipulated as part of a single unit of work. What you're describing doesn't seem to fit into that paradigm (though more information about the specifics of the use-case - e.g. what kinds of key/value pairs, how many are sent, how are they related - would be helpful). In theory the Observation resource can be treated as a simple name/value pair - Observation.name and Observation.value, but I'm not clear that's appropriate for your use-case

Lloyd McKenzie
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    Yes - why? if all you're exchanging is name/value pairs, why use FHIR? If you're doing other things or other content as well, then what you are doing might change the answer to your question – Grahame Grieve Oct 26 '13 at 07:55
  • Well if others +1 your answers then you soon will be able to add comments. Okay other FHIR people, lets +1 and @Brian could you approve the answer. – Richard Schneider Oct 29 '13 at 05:40