HEARTLAND Protocol

HEARTLAND Protocol FHIR Implementation Guide
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Official URL: https://fhir.heartlandprotocol.org/ImplementationGuide/heartland.fhir.us.protocol Version: 0.1.0
Draft as of 2026-04-16 Computable Name: HeartlandProtocolIG

HEARTLAND Protocol FHIR Implementation Guide

FHIR R4 conformance resources for the HEARTLAND Protocol v3.2

This Implementation Guide defines the FHIR profiles, extensions, value sets, code systems, and questionnaires that EHR vendors and rural HF programs need to exchange HEARTLAND-structured clinical data.

Source protocol: Muller Ferreira V. HEARTLAND Protocol: An Implementation Framework for Primary Care-Led Heart Failure Management in Rural Settings. Cureus, 2026. Indexed in PubMed, PubMed Central, Scopus, and Google Scholar.

The polished landing page lives at the site root (fhir.heartlandprotocol.org); this index serves as the entry point for the technical reference pages.

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  • Background — why HEARTLAND, the rural HF gap, evidence base
  • Risk Assessment — capture risk inputs and produce a tiered RiskAssessment
  • Tiers and Tracks — facility tier assignment, patient track assignment, care plan structure
  • Artifacts — full list of profiles, extensions, value sets, code systems, and examples

Conformance

Field Value
FHIR version R4 (4.0.1)
Dependencies US Core 6.1.0
Jurisdiction United States
Status Draft (v0.1.0)
Canonical URL https://fhir.heartlandprotocol.org

Disclaimers

This Implementation Guide is a clinical decision support specification for healthcare professionals. It does not provide medical diagnoses, treatment recommendations for individual patients, or replace clinical judgment. Not intended for direct patient care. For professional use only.

The HEARTLAND Risk Stratification Framework is a proposed tool under development. It has not been validated against clinical outcomes data. Formal validation through registry data is a defined research objective.

This IG is not a medical device, not FDA-cleared, and not HIPAA-certified. Examples contain synthetic data only — no patient health information is included.

Open science

License

  • IG narrative content + generated FHIR resources: CC-BY 4.0
  • Build scripts and tooling: MIT

Author

Vicky Muller Ferreira, MD — vickymuller@heartlandprotocol.org · ORCID 0009-0009-1099-5690 · heartlandprotocol.org