Profiling

FHIR-PROFILE-01 Profile tree
The FHIR standard provides a mechanism to specialise and extend FHIR resources by creating profiles.
In Estonia, profiles are developed according to the following “levels”:
  • Level 1: The base FHIR resource profiles defined by HL7 International.
  • Level 2: The ‘Estonian Base Profiles’ are Estonia-wide profiles curated through the HL7 FHIR Estonia community and published on the HL7 Estonia FHIR reference server.
  • Level 3: The implementation-specific profiles for a particular system or domain.
    Profiles for upTIS are published on the TEHIK FHIR Reference Server.
    Profiles for Tervisekassa projects are published on the Tervisekassa FHIR Reference Server.
FHIR-PROFILE-02 Summary field
  • Profiles MUST NOT define alternate summary fields for resources.
    • All FHIR base resources have several fields defined as 'summary' fields, which appear when the client requests summary versions of the resource to be returned (for example, in search results). These summary fields can only be defined in base resources and cannot be changed in any profiles.