Stream: implementers
Topic: Important Questions
Raja Moiz (Sep 15 2021 at 04:32):
I am new to FHIR and want to implement FHIR that why I am confused with some questions.
1) How do we connect a "hardware interface" like a ventilator when using FHIR ?
2) When using FHIR do we need to code using FHIR in hardware devices or the devices will work in HL7?
3) can we convert hl7 messages into FHIR ?
Vadim Peretokin (Sep 15 2021 at 12:07):
Hey,
1) you can have your ventilator act as a FHIR client that posts results to a FHIR server. The types of results you'd want to post would depend on your usecase.
2) using FHIR in devices is arguably easier and simpler than HL7 V2 :)
3) yes, you can.
Craig Newman (Sep 15 2021 at 12:42):
if you need to convert v2 message to FHIR, there is an ongoing project working on that (https://confluence.hl7.org/display/OO/2-To-FHIR+Project) including some sample mappings from a select set of v2 messages to FHIR resources
Raja Moiz (Sep 16 2021 at 04:15):
Thanks
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