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4. About FHIR

HL7 FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) is an open standard from HL7 International. FHIR was developed to meet the demands for more efficient and flexible development of standards-based integrations and better support for integration with modern technology such as mobile and cloud services. FHIR standardises the use of REST and the information resources for data sharing between clinical systems, but the FHIR resources can also be applied to message exchange and document sharing.

FHIR for data sharing enables reuse of APIs across systems. By exposing data from a clinical system to common standardised APIs, it enables other clinical systems, applications, equipment or registries to use a standard interface, regardless of which system they retrieve the information from. This is independent of whether the consumer application is internal or external to the healthcare actor.

FHIR supports an agile standardisation process which enables easier, faster and more flexible development of interfaces that also scale well.

One of the greatest benefits with FHIR is that it is easy for developers to use, however, to achieve interoperability in the long-term, it is necessary that FHIR is implemented uniformly, and in a harmonized way across the healthcare sector.

There will often be a need to adapt FHIR resources to the context in which they are to be used. This could local, regional, national and international levels. It’s important to coordinate national FHIR development with international efforts.

Last update: 15. september 2023