Questions tagged [hl7-fhir]

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is a standard for health care data exchange, published by HL7®.

FHIR is an interoperability standard intended to facilitate the exchange of healthcare information between organizations. It consists of 2 main parts – a content model in the form of ‘resources’, and a specification for the exchange of these resources in the form of real-time RESTful interfaces as well as messaging and Documents.

It's published by HL7 (Health Level Seven International).

Documentation is available on HL7 website: http://hl7.org/fhir/documentation.html

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ISO Standard relative to FHIR framework

In order to implement an FHIR based system for exchanging patient data, I would know if there is an ISO standard that could be applied to my project ? I know that HL7 Version 3 is standardized with ISO/HL7 21731. Is this the same thing for HL7 FHIR…
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HL7 FHIR DiagnosticOrder code and categories

I am creating a DiagnosticOrder from the HL7 FHIR standard. I would like to return the type of Order, such as "Full Blood Count" but also the category of this type, for example "Laboratory". I see that DiagnosticOrder has an item.code property which…
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FHIR Resource for Treatment Parameters

What would be the best FHIR Resource to represent parameters for a device treatment (treatment duration, blood flow, volume of medication) ? These parameters are Patient dependant. I looked at "Care Plan" and "Procedure" resources, but they don't…
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FHIR: Multiple Classes with same name in a Project using (.Net)

I am attempting to generate c# classes of FHIR Resources, How handle Multiple classes with same name? For Example -> In Organization and Patient resources there are Composed classes with same name "Contact" and Contact is one Complex date Type too.…
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How to Query Accident Information in FHIR?

I'm investigating HL7-FHIR for use in a decision support context and was trying to find out how to extract accident information for a given patient. I had assumed this would be a resource type but I can't find anything that fits.
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Repesentation of an Order for Procedures in FHIR

A Procedure resource in FHIR does not have a status so you can't just represent it with status=planned for a future event being ordered or proposed directly. Is a future date sufficient to represent an order for a procedure? Order resource…
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Constraining the use of Resources in FHIR

For a given implementation scenario is it acceptable to limit how resources are used within the system in ways not described by resource profiles. A number of scenarios : - explicitly prohibit the use of resources - explicitly…
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FHIR resource linkages between in-memory objects

I am exploring the Java FHIR reference implementation, and I'm looking to represent my data model as FHIR objects. From what I understand, FHIR seems to be HTTP REST based, or at least built with that in mind. Suppose I simply want in-memory FHIR…
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Supporting paging of a FHIR binary document

A patient can have a list of binary documents attached to them (not FHIR structured documents). Some are very large binary documents with 100+ pages such as PDFs or multi-page TIFFs. Is there a standard way to page a binary document, in terms…
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Uploading a resource to the FHIR server

I am trying to upload a single resource to Grahame's server: http://hl7connect.healthintersections.com.au/open/ But I am unsure how to do so. I've been trying with something like this:
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should Composition.author have Patient as possible value

Composition.author has two possible values Resource(Practitioner|Device). What if this composition is created by patient, should composition allow Patient as possible author? I am thinking about case where patient will like to report his blood…
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java.text.ParseException: The date '2013-12-11T14:45:00.000-04:00' is not a valid Date Time Format

Class: org.hl7.fhir.instance.model.DateAndTime method: setFraction(int fraction) fails when fraction is 000. I see in the code public void setFraction(int fraction) throws Exception { this.fraction = fraction; if (this.fraction == 0) …
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Multiple names for practitioners

Currently (02-12-2013), in the practitioner resource 0..1 names can be associated to a practitioner. In contrast, 0..* names can be associated to a patient. This allows specifying a person's maiden name for example. Why is there this difference? In…
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FHIR media types

The spec and the C# reference library seem to different regarding the media types for fhir. I would think that they should be: application/fhir+xml application/atom+xml application/fhir+json What's the official answer?
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FHIR Action names

The spec is ambiguous on resource actions. In REST details an underscore is prefixed to the action name, such as _history or _search. However the summary section is without the underscores. What is the correct name?
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