FHIR

Introduction

Very quick scratchpad for FHIR which provides

• Resources (Building Blocks, like DICOM specs e.g. patient, study etc)
• Extensions(Part of the Spec)
• Methodology: Bundles, Profiles, Conformance
• Syntax: XML, JSON, Turtle
• Human Readability
• CapabilityStatement, StructureDefinition
• Multiple Paradigms,: REST, Messaging, Documents, Services
• Extensive online documentation

The spec can be found here
Test servers and software can be found here

Resources

This is very similar to the DICOM approach where they identify business entities and describe them in a standard. Below is part of the definition of a patient resource from here