FHIR’s 13 Modules

FHIR encompasses ALL of healthcare data. That’s the goal.

But chances are your organization or project is focused on only one domain within that larger whole, or on one aspect of data sharing and management.

You don’t need ALL of the documentation, you need a subset tailored to your requirements.

There are 13 “modules” defined in the FHIR documentation. Each focuses on a specific domain within healthcare or on a specific area of FHIR itself.

Find what’s relevant to your project and start there.

Once you’ve done that, I recommend you bookmark two common modules for later reading: “Security and Privacy” and “Terminology”.

1. Clinical: https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/clinicalsummary-module.html
2. Medications: https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/medications-module.html
3. Financial: https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/financial-module.html
4. Diagnostic Medicine: https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/diagnostics-module.html
5. Administration: http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/administration-module.html
6. Security and Privacy: https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/secpriv-module.html
7. Terminology: https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/terminology-module.html
8. Conformance: https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/conformance-module.html
9. FHIR Exchange: https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/exchange-module.html
10. Implementation Support: https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/implsupport-module.html
11. Clinical Reasoning: https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/clinicalreasoning-module.html
12. Workflow: https://hl7.org/fhir/R4/workflow-module.html
13. Foundation: http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/foundation-module.html

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