# HL7 FHIR

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/life-sciences/hl7-fhir/  
**Provider:** Life Sciences — https://apis.io/providers/life-sciences/  
**Base URL:** https://hl7.org/fhir/R5/  
**Documentation:** https://www.hl7.org/fhir/

HL7 FHIR is one of 22 APIs that [Life Sciences](https://apis.io/providers/life-sciences/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition. Tagged areas include FHIR, HL7, EHR, Healthcare Interoperability, and Standard. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, a GitHub repository, and 1 JSON Schema.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://www.hl7.org/fhir/
- **Specification** — https://hl7.org/fhir/R5/
- **JSONSchema** — https://hl7.org/fhir/R5/fhir.schema.json.zip
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/HL7/fhir

## Other Life Sciences APIs (12)

- [EU Clinical Trials Register / CTIS](https://apis.io/apis/life-sciences/eu-clinical-trials-register-ctis/)
- [openFDA](https://apis.io/apis/life-sciences/openfda/)
- [DailyMed](https://apis.io/apis/life-sciences/dailymed/)
- [RxNorm API](https://apis.io/apis/life-sciences/rxnorm-api/)
- [DrugBank API](https://apis.io/apis/life-sciences/drugbank-api/)
- [NCBI Entrez E-utilities](https://apis.io/apis/life-sciences/ncbi-entrez-e-utilities/)
- [Ensembl REST API](https://apis.io/apis/life-sciences/ensembl-rest-api/)
- [UCSC Genome Browser REST API](https://apis.io/apis/life-sciences/ucsc-genome-browser-rest-api/)
- [ClinVar (via E-utilities)](https://apis.io/apis/life-sciences/clinvar-via-e-utilities/)
- [dbSNP (via E-utilities)](https://apis.io/apis/life-sciences/dbsnp-via-e-utilities/)
- [SMART on FHIR](https://apis.io/apis/life-sciences/smart-on-fhir/)
- [Benchling Developer Platform](https://apis.io/apis/life-sciences/benchling-developer-platform/)

## Tags

FHIR, HL7, EHR, Healthcare Interoperability, Standard

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