Care Connect FHIR API standards
API standards using the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard for health and care data exchange in version STU 3 to create a unified approach to interoperability across England
About this standard
- Publisher
- INTEROPen
- Status
- Deprecated
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Active. Active standards are stable, maintained and have been approved, assured or endorsed for use by qualified bodies.
Deprecated Deprecated standards are available for use and are maintained, but are being phased out, so new functionality will not be added.
Retired standards Retired standards are not being maintained or supported and should not be used.
- Standard type
- Technical standards and specifications
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Collections. A Collection is a systematic gathering of a specified selection of data or information for a particular stated purpose from existing records held within health and care systems and electronic devices.
Extractions. An extraction is a type of collection that is pulled from an operational system by the data controller and transmitted to the receiver without additional processing or transcription by the sender.
Information standards. Information standards are agreed ways of doing something, written down as a set of precise criteria so they can be used as rules, guidelines, or definitions.
Technical Standards and specifications. Technical standards and specifications specify how to make information available technically including how the data is structured and transported.
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Dependencies and related standards
- Dependencies
- Related standards
The following published standards use this standard:
- Clinical Decision Support API standards
- Digital Child Health - FHIR
- Digital Maternity API standards
- Digital Medicine - FHIR
- Dose Syntax API standards FHIR STU3 version
- End of Life API standards
- GP Connect Access Document - FHIR API Retrieve unstructured documents from a patient's GP practice record using the FHIR standard.
- GP Connect Access Record: Structured - FHIR API Retrieve structured information from a patient's GP practice record using the FHIR standard.
- GP Connect Appointment Management - FHIR API Manage GP practice appointments between different systems using the FHIR standard.
- GP Connect Send Document - FHIR API Send a PDF consultation summary to a registered GP practice using the FHIR standard.
- Interoperability Toolkit 3 Messaging Distribution FHIR API standards
- National Early Warning Score 2 API standards
- Transfer of Care Emergency Care Discharge - FHIR Create and transmit documents containing Transfer of Care information to support an emergency care discharge.
- Transfer of Care Inpatient Discharge - FHIR Create and transmit documents containing Transfer of Care information to support an inpatient discharge.
- Transfer of Care Mental Health Discharge - FHIR Create and transmit documents containing Transfer of Care information to support a mental health discharge.
- Transfer of Care Outpatient Clinic Letter - FHIR Create and transmit documents containing Transfer of Care information following an outpatient consultation in a clinic.
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- Collaborating Organisations
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Page last updated: 22 August 2024