Learn more about how Metriport leverages FHIR for interoperability.
fire
🔥) is a data standard that represents various healhcare concepts,
and is used to facilitate interoperability between healthcare IT systems.
You can think of it like this: every API has a spec, along with some data models, so that different systems
can communicate with the API - FHIR is the modern spec that allows healthcare IT systems to
communicate with each other.
meta.source
property in any FHIR resource points to the C-CDA source document from which the resource was derived. You can use this value with the Get Document URL endpoint to download the original C-CDA document.
extension
property on any FHIR Resource, and also
have their own specification for data they can contain.
For example, Metriport introduces a Condition Chronicity Extension inside FHIR Condition resources to specify whether the underlying medical condition is chronic.