Azure API for FHIR will be retired on 30 September 2026. Azure Health Data Services is the evolved version of Azure API for FHIR that enables customers to manage FHIR, DICOM, and MedTech services with integrations into other Azure services. The FHIR service is priced based on consumption and also provides enhanced features such as autoscaling at no cost, improved search, incremental import and transaction bundle support. You can click here to read more.

We highly recommend that you start using Azure Health Data Services FHIR service to enable rapid exchange of health data using the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) data standard. Due to the retirement of Azure API for FHIR new deployments will not be allowed starting from 1 April 2025.

If you would still like to use Azure API for FHIR, you can get started by clicking 'Create'.

The Azure API for FHIR® is a managed, standards-based, and healthcare data platform. It enables organizations to bring their clinical health data into the cloud based on the interoperable data standard FHIR®.

FHIR helps unlock the value of data and respond to changing business dynamics more easily.

Organizations are able to bring together clinical data from multiple systems of records, normalize the data using common models and specifications, and use that data in AI workloads to derive insight and power new systems of engagement, including clinician and patient dashboards, diagnostic assistants, population health insights, and connected healthcare scenarios, such as Remote Patient Monitoring.

The Azure API for FHIR is capable of powering Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) scenarios, population health research projects, AI-powered diagnostic solutions and much more.

Security and privacy features are embedded into the service. Customers own and control patient data, knowing how it is stored and accessed.

FHIR® is a registered trademark of HL7 and is used with the permission of HL7.