Stream: implementers
Topic: FHir Offline implementation
Mithilesh Gupta (Aug 21 2016 at 15:28):
Hi, our use case requires use of FHIR without WEB/Internet. So multiple health organisations/clinics would be using our system to store data/resources locally. Their would also be transfer of resources between organisations. We are not quite sure how to implement this.
Lloyd McKenzie (Aug 21 2016 at 18:32):
How would you expect them to communicate? Private network? Physical media?
John Moehrke (Aug 21 2016 at 19:16):
Common to use loopback. Your server can bind to 127.0.0.1 to make sure that it only receives requests from local applications. This is not security, but is technical approach to limiting visibility. You still need to have security methods because you need to address risks, such as malicious app that i also local.
Simone Heckmann (Aug 22 2016 at 14:33):
I have been thinking that a message type bundle is be something you could use for file based communication (if needed) because it has all the required context (sender, receiver, purpose) in the MessageHeader Resource. Though FHIR does not define Endpoints for file exchange...
Yunwei Wang (Aug 22 2016 at 18:55):
FHIR schema is a data model. You can use any communication protocol to transfer FHIR data.
Lloyd McKenzie (Aug 22 2016 at 21:42):
Including writing it to a DVD and sticking it in a FedEx envelope . . . :)
Brian Postlethwaite (Aug 22 2016 at 23:29):
In STU3 there is the Endpoint resource that could be used for that. (still in draft)
http://hl7-fhir.github.io/endpoint.html
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