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Principles of Health Interoperability

FHIR, HL7 and SNOMED CT

  • Updated edition containing sections on SNOMED CT, HL7 and FHIR
  • Authored by two of the most experienced teachers of SNOMED CT, HL7 and FHIR
  • Accessible to both relative novices and more experienced practitioners

Part of the book series: Health Information Technology Standards (HITS)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. Principles of Health Interoperability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. The Health Information Revolution

      • Tim Benson, Grahame Grieve
      Pages 3-19
    3. Why Interoperability Is Hard

      • Tim Benson, Grahame Grieve
      Pages 21-40
    4. Clinical Terminology

      • Tim Benson, Grahame Grieve
      Pages 41-61
    5. Safety

      • Tim Benson, Grahame Grieve
      Pages 63-75
  3. FHIR

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
    2. Principles of FHIR

      • Tim Benson, Grahame Grieve
      Pages 79-102
    3. The FHIR API

      • Tim Benson, Grahame Grieve
      Pages 103-121
    4. Resource Basics and Datatypes

      • Tim Benson, Grahame Grieve
      Pages 123-140
    5. Selected Resources

      • Tim Benson, Grahame Grieve
      Pages 141-156
    6. Conformance, Terminology and Profiles

      • Tim Benson, Grahame Grieve
      Pages 157-172
    7. Implementing FHIR

      • Tim Benson, Grahame Grieve
      Pages 173-191
    8. Security & Integrity in FHIR

      • Tim Benson, Grahame Grieve
      Pages 193-210
  4. Other Exchange Standards

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211
    2. HL7 Version 2

      • Tim Benson, Grahame Grieve
      Pages 213-232
    3. CDA—Clinical Document Architecture

      • Tim Benson, Grahame Grieve
      Pages 233-254
    4. IHE XDS

      • Tim Benson, Grahame Grieve
      Pages 255-272
  5. Terminology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 273-273
    2. Classifications

      • Tim Benson, Grahame Grieve
      Pages 275-292

About this book

This extensively updated fourth edition expands the discussion of FHIR (Fast Health Interoperability Resources), which has rapidly become the most important health interoperability standard globally. FHIR can be implemented at a fraction of the price of existing alternatives and is well suited for use in mobile phone apps, cloud communications and electronic health records. FHIR combines the best features of HL7’s v2, v3 and CDA while leveraging the latest web standards and clinical terminologies, with a tight focus on implementation.

Principles of Health Interoperability has been completely re-organised into five sections. The first part covers the core principles of health interoperability, while the second extensively reviews FHIR. The third part includes older HL7 standards that are still widely used, which leads on to a section dedicated to clinical terminology including SNOMED CT and LOINC. The final part of the book covers privacy, models, XML and JSON, standards development organizations and HL7 v3. This vital new edition therefore is essential reading for all involved in the use of these technologies in medical informatics.

Authors and Affiliations

  • R-Outcomes Ltd, Newbury, UK

    Tim Benson

  • Health Intersections Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia

    Grahame Grieve

About the authors

Tim Benson graduated from the University of Nottingham as a mechanical engineer. He founded one of the first GP computer suppliers (Abies Informatics Ltd). There, with James Read and David Markwell, he helped develop the Read Codes, which became one of the two sources of SNOMED CT.  He led the first European project team on open standards for health interoperability and was a co-chair of the HL7 Education Committee for several years.  He has developed a family of short generic outcome and experience measures (PROMs and PREMs) with R-Outcomes Ltd. 

Grahame Grieve is FHIR Product Director at HL7 and is the founder of FHIR. Grahame travels the world giving lectures, guiding connectathons and advising governments, vendors and care providers about all aspects of interoperability. He graduated from the University of Auckland as a biochemist, worked as a clinical diagnostic scientist and medical researcher before joining Kestral Computing P/L,a Laboratory and Imaging Information Systems vendor and then setting up Health Intersections Ltd. A growing involvement in integration and interoperability lead him to the HL7 community where he has led committees and edited standards for HL7 v2, v3 and CDA. The outcome of this was to recognize that something new was needed, which led to the creation of the FHIR specification.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Principles of Health Interoperability

  • Book Subtitle: FHIR, HL7 and SNOMED CT

  • Authors: Tim Benson, Grahame Grieve

  • Series Title: Health Information Technology Standards

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56883-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56882-5Published: 20 October 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56883-2Published: 19 October 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2199-2517

  • Series E-ISSN: 2199-2525

  • Edition Number: 4

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 475

  • Number of Illustrations: 75 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Health Informatics, Public Health

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eBook USD 49.99
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Softcover Book USD 64.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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