Stream: new zealand
Topic: Test server
Nate Walker (Nov 28 2016 at 21:39):
Hi all, is there an NZ test server (read-only?) that I can use a live NHI on for lookup? Thanks :)
Peter Jordan (Nov 29 2016 at 01:24):
@Nate Walker. It would be helpful to understand your full use case (e.g. are you just looking for patient demographics) - but, as a general point, it is contrary to NZ Privacy regulations to place 'live' NHI numbers on test servers or, indeed, to expose them via any service without the requisite authentication and authorization. There is an NHI Web Service but, unfortunately, it's not a FHIR API. However it is possible to load data, containing test versions of NZ identifiers, on any number of FHIR test servers and run test queries. At present, I don't think that there are publically-available FHIR test servers in NZ - outside of what can be persisted on David Hay's clinFHIR Server -but they shouldn't be too far away.
Nate Walker (Nov 29 2016 at 01:26):
Thanks Peter :) I'll keep working first
Grahame Grieve (Nov 29 2016 at 01:28):
you can put pretend NHIs on my server, and then query for them - the API will be the same everywhere
Peter Jordan (Nov 29 2016 at 01:32):
Thanks, @Grahame Grieve - the suggested NHI identifier system value is http://nhi.health.nz/ . I usually direct test users to your server, or Brian's.
Daniel Thomson (Apr 19 2018 at 22:44):
Hi All, I know this is an old thread (I just discovered the NZ stream so reading through all the topics) - the Ministry of Health's policy on test NHI numbers is we're trying to move everyone to using the Z-range numbers for dev/test (any NHI starting with Z). We won't be allocating these in prod/live so any Z NHI can be used with confidence that it's fictional data and that the Identifier itself hasn't been issued to anyone (even if you're using it with different data).
Would be a good idea to use this convention for any test FHIR servers too..
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