The international HL7 FHIR specification does a great job in specifying the international consensus over how health data should be shared through modern standards. However, the international base specification leaves many things open and to be further specified on a local level or for a specific domain.

Norway, Denmark, and Sweden have all already published national FHIR base profiles through their HL7 affiliates. Finland is right now in the process of creating and publishing their first version of the base profiles definition. In this initiative, we take a look at all of the Nordic base profile specifications.

The healthcare systems of all the Nordic countries are very similar. Having a common FHIR base profile specification would help sharing help data across Nordic countries. It would also help apps and systems developed in one of the countries to be adopted in others.

There is a new initiative started within the Nordics on FHIR community to create a common Nordic FHIR base profile. The initiative is currently being led by Finland, as the project implementing the Finnish FHIR base profiles analyzes the Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish base profiles as input to their own work.

In the session we present the findings accumulated this far: how different the base profiles are, which areas would be the first low-hanging fruits to start the harmonization work. We will also call relevant parties to join the effort.