Guidance on writing Profiles of FHIR

Outline

• Current Guidance on writing Profiles of FHIR
  • First priority is supplement form like any other IHE Profile - It is the Normative content
    • Yes this is a PDF publication mechanism, but it is what we have as approved Governance
    • Volume 1 is very close to what is visualized for FHIR Implementation Guide, so it should translate well
    • Volume 2+ should be kept to minimum, but must include ALL normative requirements (SHALL) of the profile
    • wiki Profiles page
      • This is very important for FHIR profiles as it will be the place where links to additional resources
  • Second priority is FHIR conformance resources: -- Informative at this time
    • Published on IHE FTP site in the Implementation Material
    • wiki Profiles page should have a "FHIR Implementation Guide" section that itemizes
    • StructureDefinition to hold constraints on each FHIR Resource
      • Cardionality constraints
      • vocabulary (valueset) constraints
      • mapping
      • etc???
    • CapabilityStatement to show minimal conformance requirements per Actor
      • Query parameters that must be supported
      • Resources must be supported (or will be used)
      • ???
  • Third priority is examples
    • For any Resource in your profile, there should be an example on the IHE FTP Implementation Materials
    • Any publicly available FHIR reference implementation server that you know supports your profile should also be mentioned in your Profiles wiki page "FHIR Implementation Guide" section
  • Not forbidden from experimenting beyond
• Near Future
  • Guidance on how to link your conformance resources on HL7 FHIR Registry
• Future
  • Implementation Guide publication is not mature enough to support IHE governance
    • IHE-FHIR-WG is working with FHIR and tooling to address this