Finnish Base Profiles - Local Development build (v0.5.0). See the Directory of published versions

Extensions

The primary way to adapt the FHIR specification to specific requirements of a jurisdiction is through extensions.

Extensions for Finnish Base Profiles

This list includes the extensions for base profiles defined by HL7 Finland.

• MunicipalityCode

  Extension for home municipality

• Patient Profession Extension

  Extension for presenting patient profession.

Extensions in other Finnish Implementation Guides

There are other, more use case specific extensions defined in other implementation guides. For instance:

• Finnish Appointment IG for scheduling
• Finnish PHR STU3 and Finnish PHR R4 for health and wellbeing data in the national Personal Health Record platform Kanta PHR
• Kanta FHIR Prescription R4 for prescriptions
• Kanta sosiaalihuolto R4 for welfare and social affairs

Other Extensions

In addition to above, a registry of standard extensions can be found in the FHIR specification and additional extensions may be registered on the HL7 FHIR registry at http://hl7.org/fhir/registry.