1.0 FHIR Documentation Index

Administration

Documentation Guidance / Background.

• Full Table of Contents
• Documentation Guidance & Glossary
• License and Legal Terms
• Community & Credits
• Version History
• Outstanding Issues

Overview

Background and Tutorial Information.

• 1 page Summary (Glossy)
• Overview & Roadmap
• Developer's Introduction
• Clinical Introduction
• FHIR Timelines
• Inter-version Compatibility

Resources

Underlying Definitions for Resources.

• Base Resource
• Conformance Rules
• Resource Life Cycles
• References between Resources
• Compartments (Patient based access)
• Narrative
• Extensibility & Extension Registry
• Formats:
  • XML
  • JSON
  • RDF
• Data Types
• Infrastructure Types:
  • DomainResource
  • Element
  • BackboneElement
  • ElementDefinition
• Ontology

Terminologies

How codes, systems and value sets are used, and registries of known terminology resources

• Using Codes in Resources
• System List
• Value Set List
• HL7 v2 Table List
• HL7 v3 Code System / Value set List
• Mappings between Value sets
• Identifier Registry
• + see the Terminology Service API

Appendices:

• Comparison with other HL7 Specifications
• How FHIR fits into an EHR
• Coming Challenges Driving Change