Digital Square on FHIR®
A new webinar series from digital square provides a foundation on this vital standard and showcases how Digital Square global goods are using FHIR® in their work.
HL7 FHIR® is quickly becoming a vital standard for exchanging healthcare information electronically. With its strong advocacy in digital health communities such as OpenHIE and many countries leaning towards adoption, there is a need to unpack some of the basics and setup conversations for the more complex aspects of FHIR®. Navigating the FHIR® ecosystem can seem challenging, but we want to help make it accessible to the global goods community.
With a new webinar series, Digital Square hopes to continue enhancing capacity in the digital health space. We will also showcase some of the exciting work that has already been done by the Digital Square global goods innovators.
Starting with four foundational topics, Digital Square will continue expanding to include additional webinars suggested by the community. These sessions will be recorded and shared here. After the first session, we’ll provide a survey to collect ideas for future topics.
To accompany these webinars, Digital Square is also hosting monthly FHIR®-side chats. Please email Vrunda Rathod (vrathod@path.org) to register for the next chat.
Our live webinars cover these topics below, and many more are available on our wiki.
Webinars in this series include:
FHIR® 101 Refresher
April 28, 2021 | 8-10 am ET/ 2-4 pm SAST/ 9-11 pm SGT
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During this initial webinar, the Digital Square team reviewed the basics of FHIR®, including the overall approach, information models, and the relationship between FHIR® and other standards. We also provided a brief overview of the upcoming webinars, and shared key pointers for participants to seek further information and engage with the rest of the FHIR® community.
FHIR® Profiling & Documentation
May 26, 2021 | 8-10 am ET/ 2-4 pm SAST/ 9-11 pm SGT
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In this webinar we explored the basics for creating and documenting a FHIR® specification for a project, a country, or an individual application. We showed how the FHIR® specification can be extended and constrained to support specific needs. After identifying what is contained in a FHIR® specification, we saw how such specifications are documented, and how this is done in a good way to accelerate delivery through validation, testing, and automation. We reviewed some of the basic FHIR® features around localization and multi-language which become more important when implementing FHIR® profiles.
FHIR® and Terminology
June 30, 2021 | 8-10 am ET/ 2-4 pm SAST/ 9-11 pm SGT
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This session will introduce the FHIR® support for terminologies: Standard (global) terminologies like SNOMED CT, LOINC, or local terminologies (for example national codes) vs project-specific terminologies. We’ll look at the FHIR® resources for terminologies, how they are used in the other FHIR® resources, and how to define new terminology resources, as well as how to localize the value sets. We’ll also take a quick look at the basic FHIR® terminology operations and provide some pointers to additional resources and terminology servers.
FHIR® Implementation Guide
July 28, 2021 | 8-10 am ET/ 2-4 pm SAST/ 9-11 pm SGT
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The culmination of this foundational series was a practical workshop-like session to create a FHIR® specification publication. We used open-source tools and a step by step guide to creating a publication of an Implementation Guide in the most fundamental aspects: Setting up a (shared) repository, adding FHIR® conformance resources (e.g. profiles, extensions, value sets), importing dependencies from other specifications, adding narrative text and diagrams, and using a shorthand language to accelerate the work.
FHIR® Search Framework
November 3, 2021 | 8-10 am ET/ 2-4 pm SAST/ 9-11 pm SGT
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This session explains the core search mechanisms and explores their application in practice. From basic to advanced searching - text searching, composite search criteria, chained search, and much more. Learn how to document and enhance your own search specifications beyond the FHIR® core search possibilities.
Case Reporting using FHIR® in questionnaires
January 12, 2022 | 8-10 am ET/ 2-4 pm SAST/ 9-11 pm SGT
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In this webinar, the Digital Square team explores the common needs for a case reporting system. Using an example specification, we explain how to implement the full stack of case reporting using FHIR specifications and tools. We also discuss how the available case reporting specifications can be adapted to your specific case or region.
FHIR® Exchange: REST, Documents, and Messaging
March 2, 2022 | 8-9 am ET/ 2-3 pm SAST/ 9-10 pm SGT
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This session examines and compares the main data exchange paradigms and introduces ways of implementing FHIR resources using RESTful architecture, Document-based architecture (including IHE’s mobile health document sharing), and Messaging architecture.
Extracting and Managing Analytics using FHIR®
May 4, 2022 | 9-11 am ET/ 3-5 pm SAST/ 10-12 pm SGT
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Learn how FHIR mechanisms work with data analytics in this session, from extraction and segmentation to visualization.
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