Navigating the FHIR documentation is not easy.
Everyone’s focus is different — diagnostic reporting, insurance claims, terminology, medication, developers, clinicians, architects.
Here are 39 deep links into the FHIR documentation, broken down for you.
The overview gets you started. The modules help you drill down into your medical area. Extending FHIR is for when things get advanced.
The Glossary is a good page to bookmark!
— FHIR Overview
Glossary: https://hl7.org/fhir/help.html
General Overview: http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/overview.html
Developer Overview: http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/overview-dev.html
Clinical Overview: http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/overview-clinical.html
Architectural Overview: http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/overview-arch.html
Resource List: http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/resourcelist.html
Common Use Cases: http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/usecases.html
Data Types: http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/datatypes.html
Resource References: http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/references.html
Rest API: https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/http.html
FHIR Operations: http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/operations.html
Guide to Resources: http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/resourceguide.html
— FHIR Modules
Clinical: https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/clinicalsummary-module.html
Diagnostic Medicine: https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/diagnostics-module.html
Medications: https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/medications-module.html
Financial: https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/financial-module.html
Security and Privacy: https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/secpriv-module.html
Terminology: https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/terminology-module.html
Conformance: https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/conformance-module.html
FHIR Exchange: https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/exchange-module.html
Implementation Support: https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/implsupport-module.html
Clinical Reasoning: https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/clinicalreasoning-module.html
Workflow: https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/workflow-module.html
Foundation: http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/foundation-module.html
— Extending FHIR
Security: http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/security.html
Extensibility: http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/extensibility.html
Defining Extensions: https://www.hl7.org/fhir/R4/defining-extensions.html
Profiling: http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/profiling.html
— FHIR Patterns
Event Pattern: https://www.hl7.org/fhir/event.html
Request Pattern: https://www.hl7.org/fhir/request.html
Definition Pattern: https://www.hl7.org/fhir/definition.html
— Miscellaneous
R5 and R4 change list: https://hl7.org/fhir/diff.html
Multi Language support: https://hl7.org/fhir/languages.html
FHIR Mapping Language: https://hl7.org/fhir/mapping-language.html
Comparing FHIR to other HL7 standards: http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/comparison.html
Coming Challenges: http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/change.html
Downloads: http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/downloads.html
— Examples
Real world examples: https://hl7.org/fhir/integrated-examples.html
Common Example Scenarios in FHIR: https://hl7.org/fhir/usecases.html
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