FHIR for FAIR - FHIR Implementation Guide
1.0.0 - STU 1 International flag

FHIR for FAIR - FHIR Implementation Guide, published by Health Level Seven International - SOA Work Group. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 1.0.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/fhir-for-fair/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

About this version

What is in

  1. General recommendations for implementing with HL7 FHIR the FAIR principles and the RDA indicators.

  2. Description of some representative Real World Cases  

  3. Conformance resources and associated examples for the representation of some study and subject level metadata

Not in this version

  1. FHIR representation of domain / use case specific data (e.g. genomics; cancer;..).

  2. Privacy and Security management

  3. End point discovery

  4. Provenance management

Open/Known Issues

  1. Persistency of identifiers, e.g. Digital Object Identifier (DOI) or FEvIR Object Identifier (FOI)

  2. Distinct and identifiable data and metadata FAIR data objects

  3. Level of maturity of some of the Evidence based resources.

  4. support for FAIR-compliant vocabularies