Mapping FHIR v4.0 to Salesforce Standard Objects

The Fast Health Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard defined by Health Level Seven (HL7) enables healthcare systems to work seamlessly together enhancing their interoperability. The Clinical Data Model is built to align with HL7’s FHIR R4. However, because of the way the Salesforce platform works, the Salesforce implementation of FHIR R4 isn’t identical to how it’s defined by HL7. Here’s how various FHIR resources map to fields in different standard objects in Salesforce.