Stream: implementers
Topic: FHIR gRPC
Matt Moore (Aug 20 2020 at 20:47):
Curious if anyone has tried using Google's FHIR protobuf definition for gRPC based communication before: https://github.com/google/fhir
Paul Church (Aug 20 2020 at 21:33):
Well, we use it inside Google at least. The GCP implementation almost supports a public gRPC API but we haven't quite got around to finishing it and publishing the service protos. There are a bunch of http headers that have to go into request fields. Any full URL being returned is likely to look like a REST URL, which makes following search pagination links in gRPC tricky. Probably a few other issues that I can't remember offhand - it is not trivial to adapt the REST API.
The beta docs describe the parts of the interface that we built so far (STU3 only, not all methods): https://cloud.google.com/healthcare/docs/reference/rpc/google.cloud.healthcare.v1beta1/fhir/stu3.grpc
We get occasional interest from potential users but most people using an interoperability standard just want the interoperable interface.
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