Stream: implementers
Topic: FHIR GUI tools request
Rik Smithies (May 23 2019 at 10:34):
Some tooling ideas/requirements.
Does a tool exist that acts as a form based interface to a server. e.g. load a resource, edit, save, browse maybe, follow references etc. Like MySQL workbench (and lots of similar tools), but for FHIR. "FHIRbench"?
Kind of like Postman but with a FHIR aware GUI. ClinFHIR does some of this, but is more of a viewer than a workbench.
Also, is there a "table viewer" for FHIR that shows a query result in GUI tabular form. Or does anything support a mime type of excel, so you can get an excel sheet for a query result (obv with some limitations due to rectangular nature of excel).
Tools would be aimed somewhere between non-technical clinical users (who always need a full application), and FHIR gurus, who are happy with bundles/xml/json.
I am thinking of students learning FHIR, researchers doing data building/mining , maybe even DBAs (if there is such a thing in FHIR), and experts who want to debug or just go faster ;-)
Michel Rutten (May 23 2019 at 12:58):
Great idea!
Would you be willing to fund development, maintenance and support of such a tool?
Grahame Grieve (May 23 2019 at 13:00):
fhir toolkit does some of these things. But mostly I just use POSTman
Yunwei Wang (May 23 2019 at 14:22):
UI need to be dynamic for resource in different profiles.
Grahame Grieve (May 23 2019 at 19:32):
that bit I don't have - sounds like a real challenge (based on efforts to generate questionnaires for resources)
John Silva (May 23 2019 at 20:33):
It would be nice to see a grad or undergrad student take this up as a school project. Does anyone here have contacts at any of the s/w engineering schools?
Kevin Mayfield (May 24 2019 at 07:45):
I've had something like that running before. This https://data.developer.nhs.uk/ccri used to have an option that displayed resources in a 'clinician friendly' table (it currently has json, pretty json and xml).
Kevin Mayfield (May 24 2019 at 07:50):
We moved it to a separate application epr/portal mock up because the angular app was getting large . The mock EPR/portal seemed to serve the aim of explaining FHIR to clinicians and non techie techs. The link to this is here https://data.developer.nhs.uk/ccri/camel/cc-portal
So to a uber non techie we can just show the portal and clicking on the FHIR links we can show resources or switching on developer tools show the queries being performed.
Screenshot-2019-05-24-at-08.48.12.png
Kevin Mayfield (May 24 2019 at 07:52):
p.s. the portal is running on a temp proxy which is causing a few errors - a page refresh or restarting the app should resolve.
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