FHIR Tutorials at the Phoenix Meeting

Nov 20, 2012

Unfortunately there is a problem with the description of the FHIR tutorials in the meeting brochure for the upcoming Phoenix meeting. The brochure describes 3 FHIR tutorials: |M4|Introduction to HL7 FHIR|Mon, Jan 14 am|Lloyd McKenzie |M7|FHIR for Implementers|Mon, Jan 14 pm|Ewout Kramer |F2|Hands on with FHIR|Sun, Jan 13, Q3|FHIR Project Team

Unfortunately, due to some last minute confusion, the descriptions of the tutorials have got mixed up in the brochure. Here’s the correct descriptions:

M1 : Introduction to HL7 FHIR

|Summary|FHIR is the newest healthcare interoperability standard offered by HL7, providing domain friendly wire formats compatible across the document, messaging, services and RESTful paradigms.  This tutorial is aimed at those who want to learn more about FHIR, what it can do and how their organization might best take advantage of it. |The tutorial will benefit|Analysts, Vendors, Project Managers |Upon completion of this tutorial the students will have obtained the following|

  • Explain the main principles underlying the FHIR methodology
  • Describe the characteristics of a FHIR resource and understand the contents of a resource definition
  • Understand the relationship between FHIR and other HL7 standards such as v2, v3 messaging and CDA
  • List some of the key FHIR infrastructure resources and explain how they are used to support the 4 FHIR interoperability paradigms
  • Help their organization to determine if, when, where and how they might implement FHIR
Prerequisites None

M7: FHIR for Implementers

|Summary|A deep-dive into the infrastructure parts of the FHIR specification. Get insight in how to design, develop and test software that uses the FHIR interoperability standard, all the way from the wire-format up to validation and storage. |The tutorial will benefit|Software developers, team leads, infrastructure architects |Upon completion of this tutorial the students will have obtained the following|

  • Understand how Resources align with object-oriented and other common software-engineering principles.
  • List the four of interoperability paradigms supported by FHIR
  • Understand the FHIR REST service operations and how to implement them
  • Understand how the Atom, Xml and JSON wire formats are used in FHIR
  • Understand versioning and bundles
  • Compare strategies for using object models, validation and (de)serialization
  • Use relational or document-oriented storage for persistence of resources
  • Understand how to implement search functionality
  • Know and use the provided reference implementations
Prerequisites The “Introduction to HL7 FHIR” tutorial.

F2: Hands on with FHIR

This is a free tutorial - but focused on HL7 work group members.

Summary This hands-on tutorial covers the resource authoring process. It will be a working class where attendees will use the FHIR build environment to construct a resource and generate the published specification. The tutorial will focus on spreadsheet usage, and be divided into an example and a Q&A session.

  |The tutorial will benefit|HL7 Committee members |Upon completion of this tutorial the students will have obtained the following|

  • Understand how to work with the FHIR publishing tooling
  • Know how the various parts of a resource definition fit together
  • Know how to add resources to the FHIR specification

|Prerequisites|- Co-Chairs,Facilitators and HL7 Committee FHIR participants ONLY

  • A working FHIR publication environment
  • should be planning to author resources, or already experienced at having done so

 

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