Prep Work for Friday's Canadian FHIR Baseline Profiling Workstream Meeting (2-3pm EST)

We hope you’ll be able to attend this week’s Canadian FHIR Baseline Profiling Call, this Friday June 21st from 2-3pm EST.

Based on feedback we heard at the last meeting, we’ll be focusing the first half of our meeting on how to use existing tools to view and edit the CA CORE FHIR profiles. We’ll spend the second half of the meeting demonstrating these tools by going through the draft Patient Profile and collectively discussing ways we should customize the profiles to cover Canadian-specific use cases through terminologies, constraints, and extensions.

We recommend you prepare for the meeting by reviewing the CA CORE Profile “canvasses” (draft profiles) in the Simplifier Project for this work . Simplifier offers a human-readable display of the changes and constraints that are made in each FHIR profile. If working in XML and JSON is more your speed, head over to the Github repository (synced to the Simplifier project) and check out CA-Core/src/resource folder to review the structure definitions for each of the CA CORE profile canvasses.

We’ll be using the monthly profiling meetings to review suggested profile changes as a group, but that means we’ll look to workstream participants to review the profiles and make their own proposed edits in-between meetings.

We get it…profiling can be overwhelming. But there are tons of resources to help you get started, including The Profiling Academy and fellow workstream members who have profiled before.

We’ve posted instructions on the Github site for how to download and edit the profiles using the Forge user interface or the Github source files. If you run into any issues, post them on the forum and we can troubleshoot them together.

See you Friday!