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title: Founda Fundamentals
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To understand everything the Founda Platform has to offer and how to efficiently make use of it, it is good to understand a number of basic, but important, underlying concepts: the Founda Fundamentals. A high-level overview of the Founda Fundamentals is given below, but be sure to click on each of the Fundamentals for a detailed explanation!

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[Clients](docId\:srfcYcIkOUsCWsN8UcpYB) 

Clients represent applications from an Application Provider that need to integrate with one or more systems running in a Provider Organization's environment. 
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[Subscriptions](docId\:swEUT1TpyCL9UInREgVC0)

A Client can request subscriptions with a Provider Organization in order to receive notifications of (clinical) events happening at a Provider Organization that the application needs to (re)act upon.
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[FHIR](docId\:H1AygLEOF8grIoXcjVPzt)

Founda's API is fully FHIR-based, allowing the application Clients to interact with Provider Organizations. 
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[Connectors](docId\:L91WpV1TKXhtmgModP-IF)

The connectors on the platform represent the connection between a Provider Organization and the Founda Health Platform.
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[Provider Connectivity](docId\:m3Un8ZeGMl61AGCSanQYw)

Founda offers multiple options to establish a secure connection between a Provider Organization and the Founda Platform.
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[Communication Standards](docId\:sbW8elw3Nj3BffbFV8GLY)

The Founda Health Platform is standards-based and supports IHE, HL7v2 and FHIR as the most common communication standards. 
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