Overview#

FHIR Resource is a Resource contained within a Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)

FHIR Resource is an entity that:

• FHIR Resource.id - has a known identity (a URL) by which it can be addressed once assigned, this value never changes.
• FHIR Resource.type - identifies itself as one of the types of resource defined in the FHIR specification
• contains a set of Structured data items as described by the definition of the resource type
• has an identified version that changes if the contents of the FHIR Resource change

FHIR Resources have multiple Data representation.

FHIR Resource has Classification groups.

FHIR Resource, whether defined as a data type (including primitives) or as part of a Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources structure, have this base content:

• Extensions
• internal id - SHALL be Unique Identifier within a given Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources

There are 3 kinds of descendent types that specialize FHIR Resource:

• Primitive data types, that add a primitive value property of the specified type
• Complex data types, that add their own children (all of which are also FHIR Resource)
• BackboneElement, A specialization that adds modifierExtension, which is the super-type of all the element types defined in Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources definitions (e.g. Patient.contact)

FHIR Resource MUST have a @value or children FHIR Resource

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources