Introduction to FHIR as data formats

What this documentation is about

• A guide to get you started. Hopefully, we will help you understand usage of FHIR, in context of reference stack, starting from the absolute basics to more advanced usages.
• Document the least complex way to get you going.
• Provide examples, list useful tooling, resources, links etc.
• Provide a means to solicit feedbacks and improvements, demonstrate usages, leverage expert opinions

What this documentation is not about

• Not a dumbed down version of FHIR documentation. Please visit the HL7 FHIR website to get the most comprehensive guide of understanding and using FHIR.
• The reference stack is not a FHIR Server. We use FHIR as means to solve syntactic interoperability - making the data machine readable. If you want the information to be machine interoperable, then you ought to be using FHIR in conjunction with clinical terminology mappings (e.g SNOMED-CT, LOINC etc)
• Not a support means.