HL7 FHIR Overview training course

Number of Days: Two 8-hour days (in-person training courses), or three 5-hour sessions on 3 different days (online training courses).

Dates:

Apr 14/15 (in Dutch)	Utrecht NL	Info/Registration: hl7.nl
May 11/13 (in English)	Online-EU EU	Info/Registration: fire.ly
May 26/28 (in English)	Online-USA US	Info/Registration: fire.ly
Sep 14/16 (in English)	Online-USA US	Info/Registration: fire.ly
Nov 03/04 (in Dutch)	Utrecht NL	Info/Registration: hl7.nl
Nov 16/18 (in English)	Online-USA US	Info/Registration: fire.ly
Nov 23/25 (in English)	Online-EU EU	Info/Registration: fire.ly

Summary of course content: This training course offers a hands-on overview of the content of the HL7 FHIR standard.

Who Should Attend: This training course is aimed at those involved with the design, development, implementation, deployment and support of systems that use (or will use) the HL7 FHIR standard.

Goals of the training course: Upon completion of this training course, attendees will be able to:

• Explain the key principles underlying the FHIR methodology.
• Describe the characteristics and contents of the core FHIR information models.
• Understand how to fully use the documentation, and how to reach out to other experts and implementers.
• Explain how FHIR may be used in different interoperability paradigms (REST, messaging, e-documents, services).
• Explain the relationship between FHIR and related standards (e.g. HL7 CDA, HL7 v2, IHE XDS).
• Build upon hands-on experience with FHIR gained during the training course.
• Help your organization to determine if, when, where and how they might implement FHIR

Prerequisites: The attendees are assumed to be familiar with:

• XML or JSON, and web-infrastructure protocols.
• Although not a requirement, knowledge of HL7 version 2 and/or HL7 version 3 will be helpful in understanding the material.
• General principles of data modeling.
• General software development principles like object orientation, databases, layered software design.

Agenda: Note: the agenda is subject to change; there are additional exercises beyond those shown below.

1. Introduction
   • Overview of FHIR
   • Introduction to HL7 and FHIR
   • Round of introductions
2. FHIR Basics
   • Resources, data types, REST
3. Demographics data, a use case
   • Exercise: Patient demographics
4. REST: CRUD and Operations
   • Exercise: CRUD / REST
5. Conformance Layer
   • Profiles, Implementation Guides
   • Exercise: Validation
6. Resource Bundles
   • Search Results
   • Transactions
   • Exercise: Search and Bundles
7. Security
   • Security Framework
   • SMART Application Launch Framework
   • OAuth2, Open ID Connect, scopes
8. Extensions
   • Simple extensions, complex extensions, Basic resource
   • Exercise: Extensions
9. Architectures and Interoperability Paradigms
   • Messaging, Documents, REST and Services
10. Clinical Statements, a use case
    • FHIR resources used to express clinical data
11. Search methodology
    • Exercise: search
12. Workflow (optional)
    • Lab order management, or Medications Management
13. Terminologies
14. Questionnaires (optional)
15. Group exercise: Resource graphs
16. FHIR in Your Country (optional)
    • Example implementation guide from your country (optional)
    • US: USCDI, US Core
    • UK: HL7 UK Core
    • NL: NL Core, MedMij
    • DE: Basisprofile, MIO/KBV, MII
17. Summary and recommendations

Course Materials: Ringholm will provide each participant with handouts containing all materials covered in the training as well as other support materials. The participants will also receive a copy of the latest version of the FHIR specification.

Faculty: Rene Spronk, Rik Smithies, (and/or other tutors, depending on the location and language of the training course).