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#FHIR for Clinical Users

Mar 28, 2014

One of the outstanding issues for FHIR has been to make the specification more penetrable for clinical users - or, more precisely, for non-technical users. The framing of what FHIR is made in a technology setting, and if you aren’t familiar with the technologies, then it’s hard to know where to start. I committed to doing something about that, so here’s a short “FHIR for Clinical Users” introduction: http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=FHIR_for_Clinical_Users

This explains how the API works using a simple analogy. Feedback to continue to improve this is welcome. It will make it’s way into the next version of the specification once we start working on that.

I’d like to thank Josh Mandel, Heather Leslie, Tim Benson, David Hay and Lloyd Mackenzie for contributing to the document.