Towards Interoperability in Clinical Research: Enabling FHIR on the Open Source Research Platform XNAT

摘要

The FAIR guiding principles define interoperability as one of the main aspects of modern research [1]. To achieve this, standards for communication between systems and for different formats of data are employed. The Health Level Seven International organisation actively develops the HL7 standards for healthcare and research. Interfaces that comply to the suggested standards are already implemented in different platforms, such as Smart Health IT, openEHR or HiGHmed.HL7 FHIR The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is a recent standard framework from HL7 developed for transferring medical data between heterogeneous platforms. The structured definition of all required datatypes for clinical routine and medical research combined with the specification of an open source XML and JSON data exchange format make HL7 FHIR a promising standard to adopt in medical information systems.