A brief introduction to getting started with FHIR® APIs for national Spine services.

Introduction

Traditionally, the “Spine” has provided national services through a range of messaging standards including ebXML and SOAP messages. Many of these interfaces are being migrated to make use of HL7 FHIR standards. This documentation covers the common capabilities in the Spine for managing and processing national FHIR APIs.

There are two main classes of APIs that are covered by this guidance:

This specification covers the common functionality for all the above nationally defined APIs processed through the Spine.

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