HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) Standard

Context:
- It can be a Representational State API.
- It can be referenced by an FHIR Record.
- It can be designed to be flexible, scalable, and easily adopted by a variety of healthcare organizations and systems.
- It can define the structure and content of healthcare data, such as patient information, medications, and test results.
- It can provide guidelines for exchanging this information between different healthcare systems.
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See: URL, Health Level Seven International, JSON, XML, Resource Description Framework, Electronic Health Record, Creative Commons License#Zero / Public Domain, Application Programming Interface, HTTP, RESTful.

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- Q: what is the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) Standard?
- A: The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is a standard for exchanging healthcare information electronically. It was developed by the Health Level Seven International (HL7) organization and is designed to be flexible, scalable, and easily adopted by a variety of healthcare organizations and systems. The standard defines the structure and content of healthcare data, such as patient information, medications, and test results, and provides guidelines for exchanging this information between different healthcare systems. The goal of FHIR is to improve the interoperability of healthcare information, making it easier for healthcare providers to access and use patient information to provide better care. The standard is implemented using modern web technologies, making it easy to integrate into existing healthcare systems and allowing for fast and efficient data exchange.

(Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Healthcare_Interoperability_Resources Retrieved:2021-11-29.
- Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR, pronounced "fire") is a standard describing data formats and elements (known as "resources") and an application programming interface (API) for exchanging electronic health records (EHR). The standard was created by the Health Level Seven International (HL7) health-care standards organization.
  FHIR builds on previous data format standards from HL7, like HL7 version 2.x and HL7 version 3.x. But it is easier to implement because it uses a modern web-based suite of API technology, including a HTTP-based RESTful protocol, and a choice of JSON, XML or RDF for data representation. One of its goals is to facilitate interoperability between legacy health care systems, to make it easy to provide health care information to health care providers and individuals on a wide variety of devices from computers to tablets to cell phones, and to allow third-party application developers to provide medical applications which can be easily integrated into existing systems.
  FHIR provides an alternative to document-centric approaches by directly exposing discrete data elements as services. For example, basic elements of healthcare like patients, admissions, diagnostic reports and medications can each be retrieved and manipulated via their own resource URLs.