XNAT FHIR

XNAT FHIR enables HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) integration with the XNAT 1.7 research platform by implementing an additional REST API to support FHIR-compliant patient data exchange.

Key Features:

• HL7 FHIR Integration: Implements HL7 FHIR resources and standards to represent clinical and patient data within XNAT.
• REST API Implementation: Provides an additional REST API for XNAT version 1.7 that exposes FHIR endpoints for data exchange.
• Plugin Architecture: Embeds FHIR support within XNAT via a plugin, extending data-exchange capabilities while preserving core XNAT functionality.

Scientific Applications:

• Patient Data Exchange: Enables exchange of patient data between XNAT and FHIR-compliant systems and reference implementations.
• Collaborative Biomedical Research: Facilitates cross-platform data sharing for multi-institutional biomedical research.
• Data Management and Reproducibility: Supports management of large datasets and improves reproducibility by standardizing clinical data representations with FHIR.

Methodology:

Embedding FHIR standards within XNAT via a plugin architecture and implementing an additional REST API for XNAT 1.7; the implementation is demonstrated with patient data exchange scenarios.