Become An Sme In Fhir® Standard, Part 1

Learn the core of FHIR® Standard and the key concepts: interfaces, resources, REST API & documents

What you'll learn

Learn FHIR standard from top to bottom

Learn details about FHIR, its history, its structure, its data model, its security design, its implementations

Be able to work with FHIR data services anywhere within the healthcare system in any position

Be able to work effectively with FHIR data in any position within the healthcare system

Pass the FHIR certification exam

Requirements

None but exposure to REST IT architecture and HL7 v2 and HL7 v3 medical standards is very useful

Any medical background is useful but not required

Software architecture or development background is very useful

Description

If you work or would like to work in the healthcare IT space, you have to know FHIR®. The problem is that FHIR learning is primarily available from HL7, and it’s not cheap or easily accessible by any means. Any other training outside of HL7 is cursory, limited, or expensive.This course offers to remedy that situation; you will get an exceptional and detailed learning experience on the FHIR standard at a minimal cost. The key to FHIR learning is balance. You want to get all the core information without the unnecessary details. This course attempts to do just that. It’s a very fine balancing act that requires years of experience in being able to judge what information is essential and what is extraneous and can be dropped.Who is the course for?Anybody who works with FHIR currently and wishes they had a better understanding of it. It’s also for people who want to work in healthcare IT. This goes for any role you can think of, from business analysts to program managers, to IT directors and CIOs in healthcare IT. FHIR is ubiquitous in this space. Even if you worked with FHIR for a while, chances are your understanding is rather shallow, and you would benefit from a thorough basic course on FHIR.Course DetailsThe course is divided into 5 sections, excluding the introduction and a conclusion to the course.FHIR Intro and BackgroundFHIR Resources 1FHIR Resources 2FHIR REST APIFHIR DocumentsThis course is designed for individuals seeking FHIR certification, but it is just the first step. There is a second course that is necessary to pass the certification exam. This course covers in detail all the core topics in FHIR, and the second course covers the remainder.Learning StrategyThe reason for this 2-course strategy is not financial but mental. Each course is just too mentally demanding and needs its own space. This split also offers the advantage of offering different stakeholders a different view on FHIR. Most stakeholders don’t need to understand many of the peripheral and technical FHIR requirements. They just need to understand the core of FHIR, which is exactly what this course offers.The course is about 3 hours in lectures and another 1.5-2 hours in exercises and tests. The beauty of the course is that one can skip the lectures and just read the slides to get the full picture of the lesson, thus saving oneself some valuable time listening to the audio.Since this is primarily a conceptual exercise, there isn’t much room for hands-on training. Nonetheless, the course offers a hands-off walk-through of the original HL7 FHIR documentation, which is quite challenging in its own right.Additionally, each sub-lesson has a quiz with about 5 open questions and occasionally small exercises. And each lesson/section has a test with 15 questions in multiple-choice format. This is aimed at those who plan on taking the certification test, but of course, every student is encouraged to take these tests and pass them in order to be confident in their understanding of FHIR.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction to the course

Section 2: FHIR® Introduction & Basics

Lecture 2 FHIR® Definition and Section Learning Objectives

Lecture 3 FHIR® Interface Types & Key IT Concepts

Lecture 4 FHIR® Comparison to HL7® v2, v3, CDA®

Lecture 5 FHIR® in Healthcare IT Architecture

Lecture 6 FHIR® Versions and Maturity Levels

Lecture 7 Hands-on FHIR® Documentation Overview

Section 3: FHIR® Resources 1

Lecture 8 FHIR® Resources 1 & Learning Objectives

Lecture 9 FHIR® Type Framework & Datatypes

Lecture 10 What Is a FHIR® Resource

Lecture 11 FHIR@ Resource Design

Lecture 12 FHIR@ Resource Components

Lecture 13 FHIR® Resource Identity & References

Lecture 14 FHIR Resource Metadata

Lecture 15 Hands-on FHIR® Resource Overview

Section 4: FHIR® Resources 2

Lecture 16 FHIR® Resources 2 And Learning Objectives

Lecture 17 FHIR® Resource Narrative

Lecture 18 FHIR® Resource Versioning

Lecture 19 FHIR® Resource Extensions

Lecture 20 FHIR® Resource Bundle & Containers

Lecture 21 FHIR® Resource Encoding

Section 5: FHIR® REST API

Lecture 22 FHIR® REST Introduction and Learning Objectives

Lecture 23 FHIR® REST Background

Lecture 24 FHIR® REST Interactions

Lecture 25 FHIR® REST Search

Lecture 26 FHIR® REST Search - Advanced

Lecture 27 FHIR® REST Versions, Deletions, Patch Operations

Lecture 28 Hands-on FHIR® REST Documentation

Section 6: FHIR® Documents

Lecture 29 FHIR® Documents Introduction And Learning Objectives

Lecture 30 When To Use FHIR® Documents

Lecture 31 FHIR® Document Structure

Lecture 32 FHIR® And CDA

Lecture 33 FHIR® And CCDA

Lecture 34 FHIR® Binary Data Encoding

Section 7: Conclusion

Lecture 35 Conclusion to the course and the next step.

Anybody who needs to understand FHIR in theory or practice or both: analysts, developers, PMs, architects, doctors, data scientists, nurses, etc.,Ideal for someone who wants to pass the FHR certification course