Thoughts and comments on the HL7 FHIR standard, from a FHIR Evangelist
Many people reading this post will be aware of the International Patient Summary (IPS) Implementation Guide that describes a consistent set of key clinical data such as Medications, Allergies and significant conditions for use as a concise summary of a person s health status when seeing an unfamiliar provider. It is widely used internationally, and even [ ]
I’ve just published an update to clinFHIR well, not so much an update as a re-packaging of the underlying codebase into docker containers, and rationalizing the number of servers I’m using. As part of the update I’ve replaced the front page (with a little help from AI) and only included the apps that I [ ]
The FHIR standard describes how health related information can be moved around a healthcare ecosystem, describing both information structure and exchange mechanisms. It’s straightforward to learn and use, but can be a bit overwhelming to the newcomer as it’s grown quite large since we first started it over 10 years ago. This post is intended [ ]
In this post we’re going to take a closer look at SDC definition based resource extraction from a completed Questionnaire. SDC (Structured Data Capture) is an Implementation Guide that describes and expands the use of the FHIR Questionnaire resource in defining forms to display and capture structured information. As well as visual and behavioural enhancements [ ]
In the last post we took a look at the new clinFHIR Questionnaire Viewer a tool that takes any R4 Questionnaire and provides a number of views of them including rendering them in the CSIRO form renderer via the Fhirpath lab. Since that post there have been a number of upgrades most specifically [ ]
In the last post we looked at enhancements that were made to an existing clinFHIR module the Bundle Viewer. Now let’s take a look at a new module the Questionnaire Viewer. This was developed as part of the CanShare project in New Zealand and made available to clinFHIR for more general use. It’s [ ]
The Bundle Visualizer module in clinFHIR has been around for a while. It allows you to view the contents of a FHIR bundle in a number of ways, and can also validate the contents. As part of a general update to clinFHIR that I’m working on, I’ve taken the opportunity to ‘refurbish’ and rename it [ ]
So I’ve finally migrated clinFHIR to using https rather than plain old http. It’s something I’ve meant to do for a while, but it wasn t without issues! I decided to use nginx as a reverse proxy to manage the interface, and also took the opportunity to rationalize the servers they’ve proliferated over the years! [ ]
At the FHIR Connectathon last week I participated in the Questionnaire track and spent most of my time there using and integration with the fhirpath lab questionnaire tester tool maintained by Brian Postlethwaite one of the foundation members of the FHIR community. The tester is part of a suite of tools that [ ]
A post on custom search parameters from my good friend Brian Postlethwaite Well worth a read and try out his FHIRPath Lab tool too!