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2.1.0 Documentation Index

FHIR Infrastructure Work Group

Maturity Level : N/A

Standards Status : Informative

This page provides an index to the key commonly used background documentation pages for FHIR. Also, see the list of 157 160 resources defined by FHIR.

Framework Conformance Rules N Resource Life Cycles References between Resources N Compartments Narrative N Extensibility N Terminologies N Code Systems Value Sets Terminology Service FHIR NPM Packages FHIRPath N , Patch , & X-FHIR-Query Mappings to other standards Version Management Change Management & Versioning N Managing Multiple FHIR Versions Version History Differences to Release 4 Transforms between Release 4 and Release 5 Background Overviews: General , Developers , Clinical , Architects 1 page Summary ( Glossy ) Glossary ( Multi-Language ) License and Legal Terms Community & Credits Outstanding Issues Appendix: Coming Challenges for Healthcare ANSI Documentation HL7, ANSI and the FHIR Standard

Exchanging Resources (and how to choose) RESTful API (HTTP) N Search N ( Search Param Registry ) Operations N Asynchronous Use Using GraphQL Operations for Large Resources Documents Messaging Services Persistence/Data bases Subscriptions Framework Resource Definitions: N Resource Formats: N UML Definition N XML Format N JSON Format N ND-JSON Format N RDF Definition Datatypes N Metadata Types N ElementDefinition N Dosage MarketingStatus ProductShelfLife Type Framework N Resource N DomainResource N CanonicalResource N MetadataResource N

Adopting & Using FHIR Profiling FHIR N Implementation Obligations FHIR Workflow Downloads - Schemas, Code, Tools Managing Multiple FHIR Versions Validating Resources Logical models Best Practices for Implementers Mapping Language ( tutorial ) Testing Implementations Safety & Security Security , Security Labels & Signatures Clinical Safety Implementation Advice Managing Resource Identity Guide to Resources Multi-language support Variations between Submitted data and Retrieved data Push vs Pull Integrated Examples Common Use Cases Relationship to Other Standards v2 Messaging v3 Messaging CDA (see also CDA on FHIR ) Other Specifications

Note: the N symbol indicates that the target of the link contains Normative content .