Life Sciences

HL7 FHIR

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is HL7's standard for health care data exchange. The current normative version is R5, released March 2023. Defines roughly 150 resource types covering administration, clinical care, diagnostics, medications, workflow, financial, and foundation domains, exchanged over REST, messaging, or document paradigms.

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Documentation
https://www.hl7.org/fhir/

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GitHubRepository
https://github.com/HL7/fhir

Schemas & Data

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JSONSchema
FHIR JSON Schema (official)

Other Resources

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Specification
FHIR R5 specification

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
name: HL7 FHIR
description: Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is HL7's standard for health care data
  exchange. The current normative version is R5, released March 2023. Defines roughly 150 resource types
  covering administration, clinical care, diagnostics, medications, workflow, financial, and foundation
  domains, exchanged over REST, messaging, or document paradigms.
humanURL: https://www.hl7.org/fhir/
baseURL: https://hl7.org/fhir/R5/
tags:
- FHIR
- HL7
- EHR
- Healthcare Interoperability
- Standard
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.hl7.org/fhir/
- type: Specification
  url: https://hl7.org/fhir/R5/
  title: FHIR R5 specification
- type: JSONSchema
  url: https://hl7.org/fhir/R5/fhir.schema.json.zip
  title: FHIR JSON Schema (official)
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/HL7/fhir