The 3-Day HL7 FHIR Overview Course

Firely offers the only HL7 FHIR course with 50% hands-on exercises, so you can gain practical experience while learning.

Gain a whole new range of FHIR skills

After this training course, attendees will be able to:

  • Explain the key principles underlying the FHIR methodology
  • Explain the relationship between FHIR and related standards (e.g. HL7 CDA/HL7 v2/IHE XDS)
  • 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)
  • 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

What you need to know

What is it about?

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

Who is it for?

Those involved with the design, development, implementation, deployment and support of systems that use HL7 FHIR.

Schedule

You can view our upcoming open training courses here. In-company training courses can be scheduled according to the availability of your team.

Prerequisites

Attendees are assumed to be familiar with:

  • XML, Json and web-infrastructure protocols
  • General principles of data modeling
  • General software development principles like object orientation, databases, layered software design

Course duration

  • Online training course: 3 days, 5 hours a day.
  • In-person training course: 2 days, 8 hours a day.

Are you interested in an in-company training course?

In-company training courses can be scheduled according to the availability of your team and customized to your use case.

Upcoming courses

HL7 FHIR Summary training course (US edition)

  • Any time
  • Online
  • $500
This e-Learning training course offers a 2-hour summary of FHIR.

HL7 FHIR Summary training course (EU edition)

  • Any time
  • Online
  • €450
This e-Learning training course offers a 2-hour summary of FHIR.

HL7 FHIR Overview Course (US edition)

  • October 2-4, 2023
  • US Edition, 11:00 AM – 4:30 PM (ET)
  • Online
  • $1,500
Firely offers the only HL7 FHIR course with 50% hands-on exercises, so you can gain practical experience while learning.

HL7 FHIR Data Modeling Course (US Edition)

  • October 16-18, 2023
  • US Edition, 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM (ET)
  • Online
  • $1500
Deep dive into the world of FHIR profiling, Resource Validation & creating Implementation Guides.

HL7 FHIR Overview Course (US edition)

  • November 13-15, 2023
  • US Edition, 11:00 AM – 4:30 PM (ET)
  • Online
  • $1,500
Firely offers the only HL7 FHIR course with 50% hands-on exercises, so you can gain practical experience while learning.

HL7 FHIR Overview Course (EU edition)

  • November 20-22, 2023
  • EU Edition, 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM (CET)
  • Online
  • €1400
Firely offers the only HL7 FHIR course with 50% hands-on exercises, so you can gain practical experience while learning.

Learning modules and agenda

The following topics will be covered in 2 to 3 days. We’ll provide additional exercises on top of these.

HL7 FHIR Overview Course

  • Introduction
    • Introduction to HL7 and FHIR
    • Round of introductions
  • FHIR Basics
    • Resources, data types, REST
  • Demographics Data, a use case
    • Exercise #1: Patient demographics
  • REST: CRUD and Operations
    • Exercise #2: CRUD / REST
  • Conformance Layer
    • Profiles, Implementation Guides
  • Bundles
    • References
    • Transactions
    • Exercise #3: Bundles and Search
  • SMART
    • Application Launch Framework v.1.0.0.
    • OAuth2, Open ID Connect, scopes
  • Extensions
    • Basic resource
    • Exercise #4: Extensions
  • Architectures and Interoperability Paradigms
    • REST, messaging, documents, services
  • Clinical statements, a use case
  • Complex Search
    • Exercise #5: Search
  • Questionnaires (optional)
  • Terminologies
  • Exercise #6: Validation
  • Workflow (optional)
    • Lab order management, or Medications Management
  • Scheduling
    • Exercise #7:Scheduling (optional)
  • Group exercise #8: Resource graph
  • FHIR in your country (optional)
    • Example implementation guide from your country (optional)
    • US: USCDI v1, US Core 3.1.1
    • UK: CareConnect/INTEROPen, NHS Digital
    • NL: NL Core, MedMij
    • DE: Basisprofile, MIO/KBV, MII
  • Overall summary
    • Relationship with v2/CDA/IHE

*Please note that this agenda is subject to change.

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