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1.1 Documentation Index

FHIR Infrastructure

Work Group

Maturity Level: N/A

Ballot Status: Informative

This page provides an index to the key commonly used documentation pages for FHIR.

Framework

Conformance Rules N
Resource Life Cycles
References between Resources N
Compartments
Narrative N
Extensibility N
Formats: N XML N, JSON N, & RDF
Terminologies N (Code Systems, Value Sets)
FHIRPath

Version Management

Change Management & Versioning N
Version History
Differences to DSTU 2
Transforms between DSTU 2 and STU 3

Background

Overviews: General, Developers,
Clinical, Architects
1 page Summary (Glossy)
Glossary (X-Language)
License and Legal Terms
Community & Credits
Outstanding Issues
Appendix: Coming Challenges for Healthcare

Exchanging Resources

RESTful API (HTTP) N+ GraphQL
Search N + Search Param Registry
Operations N
Documents
Messaging
Services

Base Types

Data Types (Base) N
Metadata Types N
Resource N
DomainResource N
Element N
BackboneElement N
ElementDefinition N
+ Dosage (for medications)

Design Patterns

FiveWs (Attribution)
Event
Request
Definition

Adopting & Using FHIR

Profiling FHIR N
Downloads - Schemas, Code, Tools
Validating Resources
Mapping Language (tutorial)
Testing Implementations

Safety & Security

Security & Security Labels
Clinical Safety

Implementation Advice

Guide to Resources
Variations between Submitted data and Retrieved data
Managing Resource Identity
Push vs Pull
Integrated Examples
Common Use Cases