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The FHIR RESTful API provides a consistent set of HTTP services for understanding the system capabilities, finding (search) and managing resources (read, create, update, delete), and subscribing to content using a set of predictable URLs. FHIR also defines a framework for actions (execute) on the server, and a way to prevent version conflicts on the server, as well as away to download large amounts of data from a server.
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Benson, T., Grieve, G. (2021). The FHIR API. In: Principles of Health Interoperability. Health Information Technology Standards. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56883-2_6
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