Open FHIR files in your browser
The JSON health apps and EHRs share your records in, a resource at a time or a bundle of them. Open it right here as a chart you can read, with no app or FHIR server. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your record opens as a chart of its resources, each kind in a table, a report's results under its name, and the documents it holds as files.
- Problems, medicines and allergies • Each in a table
- Results and vital signs • A report's results under its name
- Documents and attachments • Each in its own viewer
- Patient data hidden until you show it
About FHIR
HL7 International published FHIR, Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, in 2014 and its Release 4 in 2019, which US rules made the way apps fetch your records from an EHR. Apple Health's health records, Medicare's Blue Button and the bulk exports researchers get all come as FHIR.
A FHIR record is resources, each a JSON object or an XML element named by its resourceType: Patient, Condition, MedicationRequest, AllergyIntolerance, Observation, Immunization, Encounter, DiagnosticReport and DocumentReference, pointing at each other by reference. A Bundle gathers them in one file, and a bulk export writes NDJSON, a resource a line and a file a type.
Filepeek reads R4 and STU3 in your browser into a chart: problems, medicines, allergies, results with their ranges and flags, vital signs, vaccines, procedures, visits and care plans, each in a table, a report's results under its name. The documents and attachments it holds, like a PDF or a C-CDA, open in their own viewers, the patient's details stay hidden on the record until Show patient data, and no FHIR server is asked.
FHIR health record
.json • .xml • .ndjson
Format
- MIME type
- application/fhir+json
- Made by
- HL7 International
- Released
- 2014
Inside the file
- Kept as
- JSON or XML, a bundle or NDJSON
- Resources
- Patient, Condition, Observation and more
- Links
- Each resource points at others by reference
- Versions
- R4 and STU3, most often
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens FHIR files in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, a resource, a bundle or a bulk export's NDJSON. On their own, browsers show them as code.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open FHIR
- WindowsNo app built in reads it • A browser shows its JSON
- MacNo app built in reads it • A browser shows its JSON
- iPhone and iPadHealth fetches records as FHIR, but opens no file
- AndroidNo app built in reads it
Questions
Where do FHIR files come from?
Apps that fetch your records from an EHR, like Apple Health, keep them as FHIR, and so do Medicare's Blue Button, bulk exports for research and some portals' downloads. Apple Health's export keeps them in its clinical-records folder, a JSON a resource.
Can I open Apple Health's health records?
Yes. Open your Health export and its health records open together as one record, or open any JSON of its clinical-records folder on its own.
What's in a bundle?
A Bundle is a resource that holds others, like a patient's whole record or a search's results. Filepeek reads each one inside and follows their references, so a report shows its results and a medicine its name.
Can I see the JSON itself?
Yes. Tree and Text show every resource as the file has it, beside the record.
Is my record sent to a FHIR server?
No. The file is read in your browser and stays on your device, and nothing is asked of any server, so only what the file holds shows.