FHIR® – Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources – is a next generation standards framework created by HL7®. You find here an Implementation Guide registry for Switzerland. This registry is maintained by HL7 Switzerland.

To participate join our FHIR.ch work group calls. See also the recommendation for the Swiss Implementation Guide development.

Swiss Implementation Guides


by HL7 Switzerland

CH Core

Core FHIR profiles for Switzerland by HL7 Switzerland FHIR workgroup. See wiki for more information.
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CH Term

FHIR implementation guide containing terminology that is used in Switzerland for the core profiles, various exchange formats and also in the context of the Swiss electronic patient record (EPR).
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CH EMED

FHIR eMedication exchange formats for Annex 4 corresponding to CDA-CH-EMED.
Implementation Guide  |   CI Build  |   Publication History  |   Source   |   Joint Venture Arbeitsgruppe Austauschformate EPD

CH VACD

Implementation Guide for the exchange of vaccination and immunization information in Switzerland.
Implementation Guide  |   CI Build  |   Publication History  |   Source   |   Joint Venture Arbeitsgruppe Austauschformate EPD

CH AllergyIntolerance

Swiss Implementation Guide for Allergy & Intolerance based on the recommendations of the interprofessional working group EPR (IPAG).
Implementation Guide  |   CI Build   |   Publication History  |   Source   |   Joint Venture Arbeitsgruppe Austauschformate EPD

CH ORF

The Order & Referral by Form (CH ORF) Profile describes how forms for eReferrals, requests for information (such as diagnostic imaging results, lab results, discharge reports etc.) can be defined, deployed and used in order to achieve a syntactical and semantically consistent cross enterprise information exchange.
Implementation Guide  |   CI Build   |   Publication History  |   Source   |   Joint Venture Arbeitsgruppe Radiologie

CH eTOC

Transition of Care Implementation Guide based on the IPAG report.
Implementation Guide  |   CI Build   |   Publication History  |   Source   |   Joint Venture Arbeitsgruppe Austauschformate EPD

CH RAD-Order

Based on the CH ORF Implementation Guide for Order & Referral in the Radiology domain to achieve a syntactical and semantically consistent cross enterprise information exchange.
Implementation Guide  |   CI Build   |   Publication History  |   Source   |   Joint Venture Arbeitsgruppe Radiologie

CH LAB-Order

Swiss Implementation Guide for the exchange of order data in the laboratory sector.
Implementation Guide  |   CI Build   |   Publication History  |   Source   |   Joint Venture Laborprojekt

CH LAB-Report

Implementation Guide for Laboratory Reports in Switzerland.
Implementation Guide  |   CI Build   |   Publication History  |   Source   |   Joint Venture Laborprojekt

CH IPS

Swiss IPS based on the International Patient Summary Implementation Guide.
Implementation Guide  |   CI Build   |   Publication History  |   Source   |   Joint Venture Arbeitsgruppe EPD

CDA-FHIR-Maps

This Implementation Guide provides maps to transform documents from CDA to FHIR and back.
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by eHealth Suisse

CH EPR FHIR

This national extension provides a FHIR based API for the Swiss EPR by extending the IHE FHIR based mobile profiles.
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by Federal Office of Public Health FOPH

CH ATC

The profile CH ATC defines the audit trail consumption requirements for the EPR in Switzerland which a community has to provide for a patients audit trail. See eHealth Suisse for more information about the Electronic Patient Record in Switzerland.
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CH CRL

Implementation Guide to specifies the exchange format for cancer registration. In order to achieve data completeness on a national level, institutions involved in diagnosing or treating cancer are required to report cases of cancer to a cancer registry.

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CH ELM

CH ELM is a project of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), Communicable Diseases Division, to enable laboratories to send their observations of notifiable communicable infectious diseases to the FOPH electronically.

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by eCH / HL7 Switzerland

CH EMS

Implementation Guide for the Emergency Medical Service Protocol (eCH-0207) from IVR and HL7 Switzerland.
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by other organizations

CH-EMED-EPR

FHIR eMedication exchange formats for the implementation effort of CARA within its EPR community.
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eMediplan CHMED IG

CHMED is a FHIR based definition for the eMediplan CHMED format.
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Swissnoso Implementation Guide

Implementation guide to specify the exchange format for data transmission to Swissnoso in the context of monitoring and prevention of healthcare-associated infections.
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MedNet Interface IG

This Implementation Guides describes the bundle that can be used to transfer patient information to MedNet, providing an optimized pre-filling of all forms.
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HL7 Switzerland

HL7 Switzerland is the Swiss affiliate of HL7 International. The technical committe has a FHIR work group which meets twice a year and has regular FHIR.ch work group calls. For further information do not hesitate to contact us.

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