Text, Terminology and Treasure: Finding Value in FHIR Data

CSIRO’s Australian e-Health Research Centre in partnership with eHealth Queensland is delivering a series of webinars as precursors to a 2-day Connectathon on 29 & 30 October, 2026.

The 2026 FHIR in Qld Health Connectathon will build on the FHIR Developer training delivered to Queensland Health staff over the past 2 years. The 2-day Connectathon will also be open to other Queensland Health staff - both with FHIR experience and people keen to contribute other skills to the development of interoperable solutions.

Webinar 2: Text, Terminology and Treasure: Finding Value in FHIR Data – Mr John Grimes, Mr Dion McMurtrie, Mr Duncan Pullen and Mr James Grant

This webinar explores how terminology services and SQL-on-FHIR can unlock analytical value from FHIR data. Using practical demonstrations, we'll show how clinical text can be transformed into coded concepts, how coded data can be enriched with information from terminologies such as SNOMED CT-AU and the AMT, and how these enriched datasets can be queried using existing tools. Attendees will also Using SQL-on-FHIR and the Pathling implementation to support cohort discovery, reporting and population health analysis for FHIR structured health data. Along the way, we'll discuss the strengths and limitations of terminology-assisted analytics, and showcase emerging tools that are making these workflows easier than ever.

*The webinar will be 30 minutes presentation and 30 minutes interactive discussion