HL7 FHIR in Norway lessons learned
summary
Norway develops a small set of national FHIR base profiles avoid mandatory conformance to maximize reuse, plus narrower domain profiles and an agile investigate-design-test loop; governance lives in HL7 Norway with GitHub best-practice guidance and webinars. Implementations include a central medication module ~100 actors connected and a Personal Connected Health and Care Hub for municipal observations, plus a national lab results service. Failures include a master person index FHIR failed due to poor performance and heavy extensions, slow domain-profile alignment, SNOMED CT coding challenges, and planned work toward R5.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker intro
- 1:07Strategy for FHIR profiles in Norway
- 2:10Base, domain and implementation profiles
- 4:03Agile method for FHIR projects
- 5:28Building FHIR community in Norway
- 7:39National FHIR recommendations
- 8:45Base profiles design principles
- 10:10Base profiles examples and extensions
- 11:13FHIR in real solutions
- 13:04Failures and challenges
- 14:08Q&A on Personal Hub and data sharing
- 16:21Adoption and funding of FHIR
- 17:24Q&A on domain profiles methodology
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