General principles

The following principles guide these standards:

• Prioritise user needs.

• Treat APIs as products, with dedicated teams, lifecycles, and roadmaps.

• Make APIs the primary interface for system interactions.

• Build APIs that are easy to learn, use, reuse, and integrate.

• Enable portability with container technologies like Docker.

• Adopt DevOps practices to deliver continuous value.

• Build APIs that conform to HL7 FHIR as a foundational interoperability standard.

• Use REST as the default design style, although you MAY choose alternatives when justified.