Interoperability standards Overview Course
Do you wish to learn how FHIR relates to other healthcare interoperability standards? Learn the key characteristics of commonly used interoperability standards. Is your project based on multiple standards? This course will show you how they fit together.

What is it about?
This training course covers interoperability between software applications in healthcare.
- The key areas in which standardization is needed (e.g. workflows, messages, documents, terminologies and identification schemes)
- The key characteristics of some of the most commonly used interoperability standards, e.g. FHIR, CDA, DICOM, HL7 version 2, IHE, IEEE 11073, SNOMED and ICD.
What skills will I gain?
Upon completion of this training course, attendees will be able to:
- Understand the key characteristics of a number of commonly used interoperability standards
- Explain the relationship between HL7, IHE and DICOM standards
- Understand the key role of terminologies (e.g. SNOMED or ICD) as used by interoperability standards
- Decide which standard is the best fit for a particular kind of workflow

More information
What is it about
This training course covers interoperability between software applications in healthcare.
Who is it for
This training course is aimed at project managers, as well as a more technical audience (e.g. software developers) for whom this overview acts as an introduction to interoperability standards in healthcare.
Schedule
You can view our upcoming open training courses here. In-company training courses can be scheduled according to the availability of your team.
Duration
- Online training course; 2 days, 4 hours a day
- In-person training course: 1 day, 8 hours a day
Prerequisites
The attendees are assumed to be familiar with healthcare workflows and processes, as well as some knowledge of data modelling.
Learning modules and agenda
Interoperability standards Overview Course
- Introduction
- Part 1: Healthcare workflows: the need for standardization
- The IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) methodology
- Part 2: Messaging: the exchange of structured data
- HL7 version 2 – within hospitals
- HL7 version 3 – between organizations (optional)
- DICOM – images
- EDIFACT (Dutch/Belgian/Swedish training course only)
- X12 (US training courses only)
- xDT (German training course only)
- IEEE 11073 (optional)
- Part 3: Documents: the exchange of textual data
- HL7v3 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA)
- Example: C-CDA, a CDA-based specification
- Part 4: FHIR – the open API for healthcare
- Part 5: The use of unified terminology and identification schemes
- (example) SNOMED – clinical terms
- (example) ICD-10 – clinical terms for invoicing
- Part 6: IHE profiles
- Example: IHE Radiology workflows, IHE XDS
- Part 7: Exercise mapping workflows to standards
- Summary and recommendations
Contact us for on-site training
Contact Mirjam Baltus for more information on FHIR training courses by Firely.

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