HL7® Austria FHIR® Core Implementation Guide
1.0.0 - STU1

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Introduction

This is the implementation guide for the Core Profiles (v1.0.0: STU 1) based on HL7® FHIR® R4. It is an official implementation guide that is hosted on the HL7® Austria github project. The most recent version of this implementation guide can be found at the HL7® Austria FHIR® Website.

This implementation guide is provided to support the use of FHIR® in Austria.

This guide is a working specification. We anticipate that it will be implemented and tested by FHIR® system producers whose feedback will help improve its content. With this standard for trial use, we are looking for feedback on whether the following goals have been met:

  • The guide provides guidance on the HL7® AT Core Patient Profile.
    • Along with the Patient profile the representation of the common structure of address information within Austrian information systems (HL7® AT Core Address Profile) and the extension to encode the religious confession of a patient (only confessions registered in Austria) (Patient Religion) has been specified.
  • This guide provides a set of sample Code Systems and ValueSets based on FSH files. Note, that Code Systems and ValueSets will generally be made available in a separate IG based on TerminoloGit.

This implementation guide contains only those profiles and extension where adaptions for Austria were necessary.

Relation to Austrian EHR (ELGA)

​Currently, the Austrian EHR (ELGA) is mainly based on HL7® CDA®. In order to enable the creation of FHIR® resources that have a similar data structure this Implementation Guide provides mappings to the CDA® based implementation guides (e.g. Mappings for Allgemeiner Implementierungsleitfaden v3).

Governance

HL7® Austria is an official Affiliate of HL7® International. Within HL7® Austria the technical committee for FHIR® (TC FHIR®) is responsible to promote and disseminate the new upcoming standard HL7® FHIR®. The TC FHIR® deals with the standard-compliant and coordinated usage of HL7® FHIR® based communication solutions. It coordinates and describes necessary localizations and offers concrete help for FHIR®-compliant interfaces.

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