Query FHIR With N1QL

Why FHIR With Couchbase Is of Interest to You?

1. Your organization is planning to develop FHIR applications, and/or looking into taking advantage of the many benefits of NoSQL database, such as distributed, high availability, XDCR, and multi-dimensional scalability.
2. You are a developer and like understand how Couchbase JSON database can greatly reduce the complexity of your applications, by relegating the complex FHIR Search  [https://www.hl7.org/fhir/searchparameter-registry.html] processing to the database server layer.
3. You are a data analyst and like to understand how you can leverage your SQL knowledge to query FHIR data directly with Couchbase N1QL and Full-Text-Search.
4. You are interested in finding out how Couchbase N1QL, a SQL for JSON, can provide an efficient way to query a data model, as defined by FHIR, that is both JSON hierarchical and relational in nature.

A Brief Description of FHIR

FHIR® – Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (hl7.org/fhir) – is a next generation standards framework created by HL7. FHIR combines the best features for HL7 and leverages the latest web standards and applying a tight focus on implementability. FHIR applications are based on the concept of “Resources”. These resources are assembled into specific healthcare applications, spanning from the administrative, clinical to patient care functions. FHIR is suitable for use in a wide variety of contexts – mobile phone apps, cloud communications, EHR-based data sharing, server communication for healthcare providers. One of the key objectives of FHIR is to specify a standard in which different healthcare applications can adopt, thus allowing interoperability between different functional applications and ultimately drive down the cost of implementations.

Please refer to the FHIR website for further information https://www.hl7.org/fhir/overview.html.

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