The Android FHIR SDK is a set of Kotlin libraries for building offline-capable, mobile-first healthcare applications using the HL7 FHIR® standard on Android.
The Android FHIR SDK has been developed as part of a close collaboration with the World Health Organization to support the WHO SMART Guidelines, which are based on the FHIR Clinical Guidelines IG.
Using the SDK, developers can quickly build and deploy different types of FHIR-native mobile health applications for a range of common and advanced use cases.
Benefits to developers
Easily leverage the FHIR specification to:
- Build mobile health solutions using a common data model (based on HAPI FHIR Structures)
- Promote interoperability and create future-proof solutions
- Leverage shared content being produced by the ecosystem such as WHO SMART Guidelines
Save time and effort:
- Provides suite of APIs that help developers solve common pain points such as sync and full offline capabilities
- Quickly turn FHIR Questionnaires into forms using in-built UI widgets
- Build complex flows with advanced form behaviors powered by FHIRPath Expressions
On-device clinical reasoning:
- Support for FHIRPath and HL7 Clinical Quality Language (CQL) for on-device processing of data and enabling clinical decision support
- Make it possible to deploy and run FHIR Clinical Guidelines IG based application such as the WHO SMART Guidelines apps
The Android FHIR SDK is made up of three libraries:
- Structured Data Capture Library: Collect, validate, and process healthcare data on Android
- FHIR Engine Library: Store and manage FHIR resources locally on Android and synchronize with FHIR server
- Workflow Library: Provide point-of-care decision support and compute clinical quality measures on Android