MIMIC-IV Clinical Database Demo on FHIR

Interoperability of healthcare data has become increasingly important given
the increase in deployment of data driven algorithms in clinical settings. The
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard has emerged as a
promising mechanism to share healthcare data across vendors in real-time and
batch settings. Real-world datasets available in FHIR would accelerate
research and development of data-driven algorithms. Existing datasets in FHIR
are primarily synthetic, and cover a limited number of resources. To address
this gap, we have reformatted the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care
(MIMIC)-IV Clinical Database Demo into FHIR. The MIMIC clinical databases have
received wide adoption and the constituent data are understood by the
community. As much as possible, we adhered to the base resources with minimal
extensions. Alongside the dataset, we publish openly available code allowing
researchers to quickly build upon our work. Translating MIMIC-IV into FHIR
provides a benchmark dataset for institutions to experiment with FHIR based
tools, and we hope this resource supports adoption and use of FHIR.