HL7 FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) as the standard for healthcare interoperability within Belgium is becoming more common. However, the adoption of this new standard imposes challenges for hospitals. How can FHIR fit into an existing healthcare IT infrastructure? And how can a healthcare interoperability data platform as IRIS for Health help in some of the challenges hospitals face?

The aim of this one-day training is not to provide an extensive overview of the FHIR standard itself, although a short recap will be given, but to empower healthcare developers to address the challenges that are imposed by the adoption of FHIR. By the end of the day, participants will have practical experience of working with IRIS for Health and will have the knowledge of how it can be leveraged for FHIR use cases.

More specifically, we will look into::

• How interoperability within IRIS for Health can FHIR-enable existing systems
• How a FHIR Server can be set up as a FHIR repository or as a FHIR facade
• How to secure your FHIR content using SMART on FHIR
• How analytics can be done with data in FHIR

We will tackle these statements from a general point of view, but also provide a practical experience on how the interoperability features of IRIS for Health and its built-in FHIR server can be leveraged in each scenario by demos and hands-on exercises.