Services, Processes and Policies for Digital Health: FHIR® Case Study

This paper provides a number of recommendations for expressing the behavioral semantics of a digital health enterprise. This includes the specification of policies, processes and services, with a particular focus on the RM-ODP enterprise and computational concerns. We believe that these behavioral aspects are needed to complement well developed expression of information semantics. The paper is motivated by the need for better approaches to expressing behaviour in the emerging FHIR® standard and providing a solid architecture framework to practitioners when using FHIR. However, the concepts and ideas are more general and can be applied to other technologies when building digital health solutions.