Developer Resources

Here you will find technical documentation and quick-start guides to get you started with Echidna quickly.

What is FHIR?

FHIR is an internationally recognized open data exchange standard for exchanging healthcare data. It provides the structural interoperability needed to ensure that data sent by one system is received by its intended destination, independent of vendors of either system. It does not guarantee that the data is understood by the receiver. FHIR is a form of REST API with exact specification maintained by HL7 with the help of the community.

What is OMOP?

The OMOP Common Data Model is an open standard that provides semantic interoperability that ensures that the delivered data has the same meaning to the receiver as they did for the sender. OMOP is complementary to FHIR as it provides a unified “language” for the data delivered via FHIR. In digital health systems, exact meaning is conveyed by terminologies. Echidna combines the power of both standards to ensure that digital health systems continue to understand each other even as terminologies evolve.

Getting started

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