OpenMRS University 2019-09-11: OpenMRS FHIR Module

[pmanko (Piotr Mankowski)]

Hi everyone,

Here’s an outline for tomorrow’s webinar, which will be much less lecture-heavy. We’ll work together to document some of the needs, questions, ideas, and concerns regarding FHIR and OpenMRS. This outline will be updated both during and after the webinar to provide a coherent record of what we talked about.

Hope to see everyone there!

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Check out the Webinars Github Page for another view of this tutorial\

Conversations about OpenMRS and FHIR

Outline

• Conversations about OpenMRS and FHIR
  • Outline
  • Learning Objectives
• Introduction
  • Review of Webinar 1
• OpenMRS and FHIR today
  • OpenMRS REST Web Services
  • OpenMRS FHIR Module
• Possible Paths Forward
  • Case Study: HAPI FHIR
• Collaborative Lists
  • FHIR efforts in the OpenMRS community
  • OpenMRS Community needs, use cases, and current gaps related to representting health data, using APIs, or enabling interoperability.
  • Questions, Ideas, Comments, Issues, Forseen Barriers etc…

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Learning Objectives

1. Quickly review the First Webinar: An Introduction to the FHIR API

2. Get an introduction to the OpenMRS FHIR Module and the OpenMRS Rest API

3. Review possible future directions for FHIR and OpenMRS

4. Participate in compiling lists of ideas for each of these categories: - Previous FHIR-related efforts in the OpenMRS community - Current health data, web apis, and interoperability needs. - Questions, Potential Issues, Forcasted Barriers, and any other comments or concerns from community members regarding OpenMRS and FHIR

Introduction

Review of Webinar 1

The previous webinar can be found on the github page

We had a few issues with recording the video, and unfortunately have no video of the tutorial section. However, I finally spliced the audio recording and the video together and uploaded it to YouTube. If you’d like to watch it, check it out here:

Also, if you’d like to get some other perspectives on FHIR, check out these two videos from a tutorial Viet Nguyen gave at last year’s UW FHIR Workshop:

1. Intro to FHIR
2. ClinFHIR Tutorial

Quick Discussion: best approaches to tutorials and community education?

OpenMRS and FHIR today

OpenMRS REST Web Services

Why was it implemented?

How is it used today?

Links for browsing and reviewing

https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/REST+Web+Services+API+For+Clients

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https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/REST+Module

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openmrs/openmrs-module-webservices.rest

OpenMRS FHIR Module

Why was it implemented?

How is it used today?

Links to browse and review

• https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/projects/OpenMRS+FHIR+Module

• https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/projects/Proposed+OpenMRS+Domain+Object+to+FHIR+Resource+Mapping

  • https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/projects/Drug+synchronization
  • https://openmrs.slack.com/archives/CKLPH66BB/p1564060382010500?thread_ts=1563991004.006600&cid=CKLPH66BB

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• https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-module-fhir/blob/master/api/src/main/java/org/openmrs/module/fhir/api/util/FHIREncounterUtil.java#L19

• https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-module-fhir/blob/master/api/src/main/java/org/openmrs/module/fhir/api/PatientService.java

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=openmrs+fhir

Possible Paths Forward

https://openmrs.slack.com/archives/CKLPH66BB/p1561654221061100

Case Study: HAPI FHIR

A Java-based implementation of the FHIR standard whose development tracks very closely with the official releases.

https://openmrs.slack.com/archives/CKLPH66BB/p1563548356111600

Links to browse and review

• https://hapifhir.io/
• https://hapifhir.io/docindex.html
• https://smilecdr.com/smilecdr.html

Collaborative Lists

FHIR efforts in the OpenMRS community

• FHIR Module
• Microfrontends FHiR RFC

OpenMRS Community needs, use cases, and current gaps related to representting health data, using APIs, or enabling interoperability.

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Questions, Ideas, Comments, Issues, Forseen Barriers etc…

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