FHIR Fundamentals Course

Discover the key topics and objectives we will cover in this module to guide your learning and practical application.

Explore the world of FHIR, its resources, standards, and how to use it for managing and exchanging healthcare data.

An introduction to FHIR resources, guiding you on using them to handle and share healthcare information efficiently.

Step-by-step guide to creating a FHIR Patient Resource, covering data structure, required fields, and proper usage.

Solution walkthrough for the previous exercise to create your first FHIR Patient Resource. Try it yourself first!

Understand the landscape of healthcare information interoperability, including standards, challenges, and best practices.

Hear valuable insights from Grahame Grieve, the founder of FHIR, about the standard, its goals, and healthcare impact.

Learn FHIR resources and data types in this module. Explore fundamental concepts and best practices for healthcare data interoperability and standards.

Explore FHIR data types in detail, from primitive to complex, and learn how to use them effectively in healthcare data.

Practical guide to FHIR resource, through key modules like administrative, clinical, and financial workflows.

Understand the Patient, Practitioner, Encounter and Organization resources and how they fit into the clinical workflow.

Explore how the Observation resource can capture a wide range of data and how it fits into the clinical workflow.

Explore how the AllergyIntolerence and FamilyMemberHistory resources fit into the clinical workflow.

Differentiating FHIR Observation and Condition resources is often confusing, let's understand the differences.

The ServiceRequest resource can be used for ordering clinical tests, procedures, and capturing diagnostic results.

The MedicationRequest resource is used for prescription, and MedicationAdministration tracks actual administration.

Resources like CoverageEligibilityRequest, Claim, Preauthorization and PaymentNotice cover financial workflow, process patient coverage and payments.

Wrap up the clinical case walkthrough by reviewing key steps, decisions, and insights for practical application.

In this module we will explore FHIR REST APIs, and using HTTP methods to interact with FHIR servers.

Learn how to effectively interact with a real FHIR server using Postman for testing, data retrieval, and API integration.

Step-by-step guide to creating a FHIR Patient Resource, covering data fields, structure, and proper usage on a server.

Solution for the previous exercise to POST a FHIR Patient resource to a FHIR server. Try it yourself first!

Learn how references between FHIR resources work and how to manage linked data effectively in healthcare applications.

Learn how to efficiently perform search operations on a FHIR server using search parameters and modifiers effectively.

Learn how to efficiently search for a resource and properly handle results while managing errors in your application.

Carefully review the solution to searching for a FHIR Patient resource, then try it yourself to reinforce your skills.

Examine how real FHIR servers behave: why 200/201 can hide invalid resources, how giant JSON bundles slow debugging, and how Vanya viewer helps.

Learn how to use the FHIR Bundle resource to perform bulk operations, manage multiple resources, and streamline workflows.

Learn how to POST referenced resources using a temporary ID, ensuring related FHIR resources link correctly within a single transaction and reduce round trips.

Explore the conditional PUT operation to either create a resource or updating an existing resource and linked resources based on their identifier.

Learn step-by-step how to create a FHIR transaction, including patient and observation resources, in this hands-on practical exercise.

Solution for the previous exercise to create a FHIR Bundle of type transaction. Try it yourself first!

Understand advanced search on FHIR including using search modifiers, combining multiple search values etc.

Learn how to efficiently search for FHIR resources by fields containing both system and value for precise data retrieval.

FHIR servers track changes to resources, learn to view full version histories for resources or across the server.

Learn to run a local FHIR server using Docker with HAPI FHIR, letting you test and interact with patient data without relying on hosted servers.

Learn how to set up a fully managed FHIR server on Google Cloud Platform quickly for testing and healthcare applications.

Learn how to quickly set up a fully managed FHIR server on AWS HealthLake for testing, development, and healthcare data.

Step-by-step guide to configuring Azure Health Data and AI Services to host a FHIR R4 API for healthcare applications.

Comparing major cloud FHIR server providers (Azure, Google, AWS) on capbilities and cost. Also discussing Smile CDR, Aidbox, Medplum.

In this exercise, explore how to create synthetic patient data and integrate it into our FHIR server for practical use.

Review the solution to the previous exercise, then try it yourself to practice and strengthen your understanding.

Understand how the certification works - the quiz format, pass mark, attempts, cooldown, and how to earn your certificate.

Put your knowledge to the test with the 20-question certification quiz and earn your FHIR Fundamentals certificate.