Lectures and seminars HI Conversations: Services contracts or FHIR profiles for Health information exchange in Swedish healthcare

24 April 2025

Services contracts or FHIR profiles for Health information exchange in Swedish healthcare

To ensure semantic interoperability in health information exchange Swedish healthcare rely on using service contracts, a textual description of messaging format and requirements for communication interfaces between interacting healthcare systems. There is, however, a growing interest amongst healthcare providers to start using international standards, such as FHIR when developing new applications and health information systems. But how can Sweden move from one standard to another? During this session we will discuss the importance of thorough informatic work to be able to make a shift between two standards and what needs to be in place to make a shift between the two standards successful.

Presenter: Tobias Blomberg, Health Informatician and registered nurse, Information Architect at Inera