EU Health Data API
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EU Health Data API, published by HL7 Europe. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 0.1.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/euridice-org/eu-health-data-api/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions
This section describes the functional capabilities and technical requirements for implementing the EU Health Data API.
The specification defines composite actors that inherit from existing IHE and HL7 specifications. See Actors and Transactions for detailed actor definitions, groupings, and transaction requirements.
Systems use FHIR CapabilityStatement to discover what priority categories and exchange patterns a provider supports. See Capability Discovery.
System-to-system authorization using SMART Backend Services and IHE IUA. Required for all transactions. See Authorization.
Patient demographics query using IHE PDQm to locate the correct patient before accessing health information. See Patient Matching.
Exchange of FHIR Documents (Patient Summaries, Lab Reports, Discharge Reports, etc.) using IHE MHD transactions. See Document Exchange.
Query individual FHIR resources (Observations, Conditions, Medications, etc.) using QEDm/IPA patterns. See Resource Access.
All exchange patterns follow a common flow:
The specification allows implementations to support document exchange only, resource access only, or both patterns depending on their use case and architecture.