Overview

This describes the resources that make up Cerner’s implementation of the HL7^® FHIR^® standard. If you have any problems or requests, please post to the Open Developer Experience forum.

• Supported Versions
• Determining Which Version You Should Use
• Supported Resources Between Versions

Supported Versions

Cerner’s implementation currently supports both the R4 First Normative Content (4.0.1) version and DSTU 2 Final (1.0.2) version of the HL7^® FHIR^® standard. Cerner’s implementation of the R4 version is ongoing and new resources and actions will be added over time.

Determining Which Version You Should Use

Determining which version you should use will depend upon your use case and, in general, if the R4 implementation meets all of your requirements, you should target your development against the R4 version. To determine if the R4 version meets your requirements, you need to consider supported resources and actions, patient access, and technical requirements. In general, there are more capabilities such as create and modify in R4 that will not be patched back to DSTU 2.

Cerner’s R4 implementation supports patient access for most resources in alignment with requirements set by the 2015 Edition Cures Act (formerly Meaningful Use 3). Cerner will continue adding support for patient access and enhancing R4 APIs over the coming months in preparation for certification. Cerner’s R4 implementation will achieve a like-for-like implementation of all resources and actions currently supported by DSTU 2. Existing DSTU 2 apps will eventually need to be migrated to our R4 implementation. For this reason, we highly encourage development against R4 whenever possible.

Supported Resources Between Versions

To determine what resources and actions are supported by our DSTU 2 and R4 implementations you can browse our documentation for both DSTU 2 and R4 and compare between each version. You can also compare the Conformance (DSTU 2) and CapabilityStatement (R4) endpoints for the list of supported resources and actions.

The table below gives a live view of what resources and actions are currently supported by our DSTU 2 and R4 implementations for system and provider access.

Please see the HL7® FHIR® US Core Implementation Guide’s U.S. Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) Guidance page for details on which specific USCDI version 1 data elements are supported by each of the available API resources defined in the table below.