This recommendation on the use of FHIR for data sharing reinforces previous recommendations on FHIR made by the Norwegian Directorate of eHealth (Assessment of International Standards (2016) [8].
The conclusion in 2016 was that FHIR could be considered for new use cases that needed to share structured data. Due to the low maturity of many resources and limited distribution, only limited use in simple use cases was recommended at that time.
In 2018, the Directorate performed an assessment of relevant standards that can be included in a framework for common information models [9]. FHIR was recommended as a representation of information models intended for exchange.