Smart Health Checks
0.3.0 - ci-build
Smart Health Checks, published by AEHRC CSIRO. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 0.3.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/aehrc/smart-forms-ig/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions
Official URL: https://smartforms.csiro.au/ig/ImplementationGuide/csiro.fhir.au.smartforms | Version: 0.3.0 | |||
Draft as of 2025-09-05 | Computable Name: SmartHealthChecks | |||
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This implementation guide is provided to support the integration of the Smart Health Checks App within a patient management system enabling users to complete health check assessments such as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Check.
The Smart Health Checks App is a FHIR-based client application aimed at demonstrating effective undertaking of healthcare assessments. It leverages SMART App Launch, Structured Data Capture specification and AU Core to improve clinical workflow, enhance the usefulness of information in the practice record and improve interoperability of health information to support better clinical outcomes.
The Smart Health Checks App is based on the CSIRO Smart Forms App which was provided as a Reference Implementation of using FHIR standards and implementation guides to provide reusable software components that can be applied within Australian healthcare software systems to support uses cases such as national health check assessment forms.
The following figure provides an overview of the actors involved in the Smart Health Checks (SHC) solution.
The SHC App allows a user of the SHC Host to launch the SHC App for filling out a health check form prepopulated with authorized patient health information retrieved from the SHC Host FHIR Server and writeback the collected form data.
The SHC App actor is implemented by the CSIRO Smart Forms App.
The SHC Host allows a user to launch the SHC App within an embedded or externally launched web browser to fill out a health check form.
The SHC Host actor is implemented by the patient management system.
The SHC Host FHIR Server allows the SHC App to retrieve patient health information and writeback collected health check data.
The SHC Host actor is implemented by the patient management system.
The SHC Host Authorization Server allows the SHC App to request authorisation from the user to access patient health information to prepopulate and write back health checks data using the SHC Host FHIR Server.
The Smart Health Check App follows a standard set of interactions which are summarised as:
Writeback Extract Transaction: The health check form data extracted from a completed form as FHIR Resources are written back to the SHC Host FHIR Server as transaction Bundle.
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Smart Forms is also dependent on:
In addition, the following FHIR implementation guides are referenced:
This document is a working specification that may be directly implemented by FHIR®© system producers.
FHIR®© connectathon events are key to the verification of the guide as being suitable for implementation. This implementation guide will be used as the basis for Australian connectathon events.
This guide is divided into several pages which are listed at the top of each page in the menu bar.
This guide is the product of collaborative work undertaken with participants from: