Travis Cummings: This should read as a guide that refers to the reference. The purpose of this is to put all of those things together.
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HL7 FHIR
HL7 FHIR is the choice of HSPC for interoperable system communication. For an application or system to be HSPC compatible it must use FHIR to exchange data. FHIR describes an object model, a messaging payload, and an API. FHIR users Resources to model clinical and administrative concepts, Profiles for semantic interoperability, and RESTful HTTP networking protocol. FHIR modeling efforts try to model the most common 80% of real-world object models as representations in FHIR Resources. To accommodate the non-common 20%, FHIR Resources offer extension mechanisms.
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