To make full use of THDS, you need to understand some related basic concepts and terms.
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources
An international standard for electronic health information exchange defines data formats, elements, and application programming interfaces (APIs).
FHIR API
An application programming interface (API) defined by the FHIR standard supports operations such as creating, reading, updating, deleting, and searching healthcare resources.
FHIR Instance
An independent, configurable FHIR data storage and access service unit created within Tencent Healthcare Data Services.
Resource
In Tencent Healthcare Data Services, a resource representation is the fundamental minimum data unit defined by the FHIR standard, used to concretely embody concepts of various healthcare business entities such as patients, visits, and observation results.
Patient Resource
A FHIR standard resource that represents information about an individual receiving healthcare services.
Organization Resource
A FHIR standard resource that represents information about an entity organization, such as a hospital, clinic, or insurance company.
Resource Identifier
A string used to uniquely identify a FHIR resource.
POST
The HTTP method used to create new resources in a RESTful API.
PUT
The HTTP method used to fully update (overwrite) specified resources in a RESTful API.
PATCH
The HTTP method used to partially update resources in a RESTful API.
GET
The HTTP method used to obtain specified resources or resource collections in a RESTful API.
DELETE
The HTTP method used to delete specified resources in a RESTful API.
Bundle
A special type of FHIR resource used to group a set of resources together for processing or transmission, commonly employed in batch operations.
Batch Operations
The feature that enables the execution of multiple create, update, delete, or read operations within a single request via the Bundle resource.
Historical Versions
The system retains a record of the old version of the data after each resource update, which is used to trace data changes.
Resource Search
The feature of finding matching resources in a FHIR repository based on specific criteria (parameters).
Strict Search Mode
A configuration option that, when enabled, causes the API to strictly validate search parameters, and invalid parameters will cause the request to fail.
Force Quote Integrity
A configuration option that, when enabled, causes the system to validate whether the other resources referenced by a resource exist during the creation or update of that resource.
Implementation Guide
A set of constraint and extension specifications defined on top of the FHIR base standard to accommodate the business and regulatory requirements of specific countries, regions, projects, or institutions.
Implementation Guide Validation
The feature of performing compliance checks on created or updated resource data according to the rules defined in the "Implementation Guide" configured for the instance.
Identity Authentication
The mechanism that verifies the identity of visitors to ensure that only authorized users or applications can access FHIR data.
De-identification
A data processing technique that protects personal privacy by removing or replacing personally identifiable information while preserving data usability.
Audit Events
Logs that record important operations within the system, such as data creation, access, and modification, are used for security auditing and compliance review and correspond to the FHIR AuditEvent resource.
HL7v2
The second-generation healthcare information exchange standard developed by HL7 is widely used for message transmission between internal hospital systems.
Message Template
A configuration file used to define the mapping relationship between the source HL7 message structure and the target FHIR resource during the conversion of HL7v2 messages to FHIR resources.
Resource Template
A configuration file used to define how to generate specific types of FHIR resources, such as Patient, during the data conversion process.