Thoughts and comments on the HL7 FHIR standard, from a FHIR Evangelist
March 26, 2021 8 Comments
In New Zealand (and other places as well I expect) we’ve had a national registry for immunizations for a number of years – the National Immunization Register or NIR
It’s currently fed by HL7 version 2 messages and there’s a User Interface for authorized users, but there was always a plan to introduce a FHIR interface to some point – something that has been accelerated by the current COVID pandemic of course.
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So I had an interesting question this week about coded values when importing data from HL7 v2 messages into a data store, and then subsequently exporting them in FHIR interfaces.
The specific question was what should the ‘default’ namespace be when the namespace is not specified in the v2 message?
September 20, 2016 2 Comments
So last week Simone Heckman (CTO of Gefyra GmbH) wrote a piece in the FHIR chat in response to a query about mapping data from an HL7 v2 message into FHIR – specifically about representing the location of a patient as shown in the PV1 segment of the message into FHIR resources. It was a great response so I asked her if I could repeat it here and she was kind enough to not only say yes, but also beef it up a bit!
Over to you Simone…
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