Stream: implementers
Topic: Graphic of FHIR specification
John Moehrke (Jul 20 2017 at 19:11):
Has someone created a high-level graphic that shows all the Resources relationships? Traversing all References by Resource type.
Lloyd McKenzie (Jul 21 2017 at 05:26):
Yes. It was extremely evil.
Grahame Grieve (Jul 21 2017 at 10:49):
and that was a long time ago that it was
Grahame Grieve (Jul 21 2017 at 10:50):
we're really in this space now: https://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/Article-Images/0995OS_10_06.png
John Moehrke (Jul 21 2017 at 12:01):
I did expect that... so then the answer is 'no'... practically speaking
Grahame Grieve (Jul 21 2017 at 12:37):
clinfhir has the best take on it for now.
Grahame Grieve (Jul 21 2017 at 12:38):
otherwise, no, not to my knowledge. Lots of people have talked about it, but no one has published that I know of
John Moehrke (Jul 21 2017 at 15:56):
@David Hay do you have instructions on where I could find this in ClinFHIR? I looked and can't find it...
David Hay (Jul 21 2017 at 18:13):
Hi John - well, you could create a scenario with an instance of each resource in it and wire up the references manually. Wouldn't be hard to create an app that does this automatically, but the result would be - confusing. Did you have a specific purpose in mind?
David Hay (Jul 21 2017 at 18:23):
btw - I've been doing something in this space for visualizing Implementation Guides - being able to view the relationships of resource profiles, extension definitions and valuesets that they contain (in this case only the ones only the ones in the IG - not the core ones). I've attached graphic for CareConnect and Argonaut and there are instructions for how to get there in CF here: https://fhirblog.com/2017/06/26/clinfhir-profile-viewer/
David Hay (Jul 21 2017 at 18:27):
As you can see, it's very much a work in progress - I've got a couple of ideas for making it more useful that I'll get too before too long hopefully - eg being able to 'zoom in' on a resource or hide/show specific resource types, or view the details of selected resources - that sort of thing. What you could do is to create an IG that represents all of FHIR and then visualize it that way - shouldn't be too hard (>famous last words<) :)
Any thoughts/comments/suggestions welcome!
David Hay (Jul 21 2017 at 18:32):
David Hay (Jul 21 2017 at 18:34):
actually - this won't quite need your needs as it doesn't show references between resources - yet :)
John Moehrke (Jul 21 2017 at 19:08):
I think this might be workable. I agree that a general-purpose comprehensive graph would be useless as it would look like the prior graphic. So I very much like the idea of having specific diagramming built because of a needed use-case... so I will see if I can figure out how to do that... Love ClinFHIR!
David Hay (Jul 22 2017 at 21:20):
Why thank you John! much appreciated! will let you know when the improvements I mentioned above are up...
David Hay (Jul 24 2017 at 23:34):
Just for you @John Moehrke - https://fhirblog.com/2017/07/25/implementation-guide-viewer/
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