Overview
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We encourage the Aotearoa health sector to contribute to the development of these standards to ensure the needs of applications producing and / or consuming these FHIR APIs are met. For more information about how to contribute please see the collaboration guidelines
Welcome to the New Zealand FHIR API Design and Development Standards
Te Whatu Ora is adopting FHIR1 (Fast Health Interoperability Resources) as a primary data standard for exchanging healthcare information to build an interoperable health information ecosystem for the NZ health sector.
FHIR APIs provide convenient persistence and searching of health data representations for consuming health software applications.
As FHIR leaves open many choices to implementers, some control is needed in pursuit of interoperability that is beneficial to all parties.
The Standards here prescribe certain mandatory aspects of FHIR API design and implementation which are mandatory for all FHIR-based APIs published by Te Whatu Ora.
There are also Guidelines which provide additional recommendations for designers and implementers.
List of standards
| Check | Id | Standard title |
|---|---|---|
| ▢ | - | Required FHIR API Artefacts |
| ▢ | - | Interoperability for NZ health applications. |
| ▢ | - | Use NZ Base IG resource profiles and definitions |
| ▢ | - | Use recognised official Urls in new definitions and terminology |
| ▢ | - | Informational content of Implementation Guides |
| ▢ | - | Rules for resource profiling |
| ▢ | - | Public FHIR API compatibility rules |