Schema.org was developed by a number of major search engine companies such as Bing, Google and Yahoo! as a common vocabulary for marking up web pages. The combination of HTML and Microdata, RDFa 1.1 Lite or JSON-LD enables a well-known set of semantic tags to be added to existing human-readable web pages. Schema.org has been widely adopted by public web sites and multiple extensions have been created for domains such as automobiles, bibliographic resources, product classifications, healthcare and life sciences. The HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard defines a standard set of "resources" that are used to exchange clinical and healthcare related information. FHIR is slated to become the de-facto interchange mechanism for healthcare and related information. We have developed a schema.org representation for the FHIR information models known as fhir.schema.org. The purpose of this representation was to promote discussion of the value of fhir.schema.org to annotate web based clinical information with their clinical model equivalent.
sources" that "can easily be assembled into working systems." FHIR is rapidly becoming the interchange standard for clinical and healthcare data. We have proposed a schema.org extension known as fhir.schema.org that allows clinical information to be categorized by its relationship with the data elements defined in the FHIR information model. The purpose of this proposal is to investigate potential uses of fhir.schema.org annotations for categorizing and mapping clinical information from sources such as blogs, personal devices and other sources to the FHIR format.
The purpose of this poster is to ask questions -- to explain schema.org, FHIR and its representation in the schema.org idiom10, to call attention to the Health and Lifesciences7 and Bioschema8 schema.org extensions, to provide a couple of proposed use cases and to ask people to examine the relationships between these resources and healthcare data models.