A package that provides functionality for FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources)

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. Caution: This project is still under development and not yet deployed for a live system. Usage in a real life situation is not recommended!

Following prerequisites have to be met:

• Python version 3 or newer
• Pandas version 1.05 or newer

pip install pandas

Navigate to your preferred destination folder and clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/JuBrandes/fhirutils/

The features will constantly grow during development. New features will be described here. For using the features you can either import the project into your namespace or you can use the py-files directly. The latter method is described below.

The Loader class in fhirutils/loader.py provides a functionality of downloading a patient's record if the encounter id is known. Open fhirutils/loader.py and scroll to the file's end. Here you can set the required parameters. Most parameters are predefined for a test run. Manually to be set is the save path where the downloaded bundle is to be saved. Maybe you have to add a profile in config.json to meet the resources' references between each other, but at first you can give it a try with the predefined "KDS" profile.

The Utils class in fhirutils/utils.py provides a method get() that accesses one or more values in a FHIR resource by giving the path that identifies the value of interest. A path example for a FHIR bundle:

entry.X.resource.id

X means: This element is a list, browse every entry in this list. If you are interested in only one entry you can type e.g. for the first entry:

entry.0.resource.id

The depth of the given path is variable. For example you can get every resource from a bundle with this path:

entry.X.resource

As above: open fhirutils/utils.py and scroll to the file's end. All parameters are set for a test run.