HL7 FHIR R4
Official docs outline
12 sections- RESTful API
FHIR REST interactions: read, vread, create, update, patch, delete, history, conditional operations, batch and transaction, and ETag/versioning headers.
- Search
Search parameter types, modifiers, prefixes, _include and _revinclude, chaining, _count paging, and sorting.
- Data types
Primitive and complex types such as Identifier, CodeableConcept, Coding, Reference, Period, Quantity, and Money.
- Bundle
Bundle types (searchset, transaction, batch, document, message), entry.fullUrl, and transaction reference resolution.
- Patient
Patient demographics, identifiers, name and address, contact, managingOrganization, and link for merged records.
- Encounter
Encounter class, status, type, period, participants, diagnosis, hospitalization, and serviceProvider.
- Claim and ClaimResponse
Claim use, type, insurance, diagnosis, procedure, item and adjudication elements, and how ClaimResponse returns the payer outcome.
- ExplanationOfBenefit
EOB structure for adjudicated claims: item.adjudication, total, payment, benefitBalance, and how it differs from Claim.
- Coverage
Coverage subscriber, beneficiary, payor, class and plan, period, relationship, order, and cost-to-beneficiary.
- Observation
Observation status, category, code, value[x], components, referenceRange, and vital signs and lab usage.
- Profiling and extensions
StructureDefinition profiles, constraints, slicing, must-support, and extensions via extensibility.
- Terminology
CodeSystem, ValueSet, ConceptMap, binding strengths, and the $expand, $validate-code and $lookup operations.
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