Getting Started
See also FHIR Developer Overview
In our experience it is better to start small with FHIR and not proceed to directly to complex FHIR integrations. This is to focus on the core FHIR resources and RESTful interactions.
The first step will normally to be explore FHIR Reference implementations and these include:
| Reference Implementations |
|---|
| HAPI FHIR Public Test Server |
| firely FHIR Server |
| UKCore Reference Implementation (prototype) |
A full list of Public Test servers can be found at Public Test Servers
FHIR REST and Resource Documentation
FHIR at it's core is based around RESTful and resources.
FHIR has only one schema for FHIR version (UKCore does not have a schema), these can be downloaded from FHIR Downloads
Code Libraries
FHIR can be developed using json/xml code libraries but long term it is easier to use language such as those listed on Open Source Implementations
Testing
In FHIR this is called Validation. Early FHIR Validation did perform schema testing but now tends to use FHIR Validation tools. See FHIR Validation for a description.
The two main tools are:
Both of these tools can be configured to use UKCore or NHS IG packages.