HL7 New Zealand

BREAKING NEWS – Release 3 of FHIR

HL7 is pleased to announce that release 3 of FHIR has just been published.

The FHIR community invested a huge amount of work in this release – hundreds of people have contributed to the specification, and there have been thousands of Change Proposals processed (>2400). Most of these change proposals arose from 3 different places:

• Implementation Experience (Trial use is working)
• Alignment with other standards
• Internal Quality Review processesSome of the key changes: 

• Added support for Clinical Decision Support and Clinical Quality Measures
• Broadened functionality to cover key clinical workflows
• Further development of Terminology Services, and support for Financial Management
• Defined an RDF format, and how FHIR relates to Linked Data
• Incremental improvements and increased maturity of the RESTful API and conformance framework
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