FHIR Chat · Microsoft OSS Releases (Internet of Medical Things)

Stream: implementers

Topic: Microsoft OSS Releases (Internet of Medical Things)

Josh Mandel (Nov 18 2019 at 19:48):

(follow up here from #Announcements)

Grahame Grieve (Nov 18 2019 at 19:51):

can you add a paragraph or 2 about the data flow sequence that is enabled by the " FHIR Healthkit Framework for iOS" - thanks (where does it come from, and where does it go to, and who can run it?)

Josh Mandel (Nov 18 2019 at 19:54):

can you add a paragraph

At https://github.com/Microsoft/healthkit-on-fhir#healthkitonfhir ?

Grahame Grieve (Nov 18 2019 at 19:55):

well, I was imagining you'd do it here but you might do it there if you want

Josh Mandel (Nov 18 2019 at 19:58):

Ah, gotcha. @Dustin Burson and @Nathan Malubay are in the best position to describe.

Josh Mandel (Nov 18 2019 at 20:00):

(Briefly, the HealthKit Framework is a library that developers can incorporate into their own iOS apps. Developers can use this library in two ways:

to synchronize data with any FHIR server via the standard FHIR API; this is suitable for "low-frequency" data;
to push individual measurements as events to an Azure IoMT FHIR Connector; this is suitable for "high-frequency" data

The general premise here is that developers use this library to build HealthKit-to-FHIR connectivity into an existing app. Of course, an end-user needs to install any such app, and grant the app permissions to access any relevant data through on-device permissions, managed by Apple's HealthKit APIs.)