Stream: cda to fhir
Topic: CDA library mdht
AJ Chen (Nov 02 2020 at 23:06):
Anyone knows what's going on with MDHT library? It's popular for reading CCD, which can then be converted to FHIR R4. But mdht does not have javadocs anymore. There seems lack of maintenance or development in the mdht project. Any MDHT project member here? Please provide some information here. Would be good to know whether mdht is a good choice for CDA-FHIR conversion going forward.
Lloyd McKenzie (Nov 03 2020 at 01:41):
@Dave Carlson
Oliver Egger (Nov 03 2020 at 07:01):
there is also a skype channel around mdht here: https://join.skype.com/zj7rX4lYstpl
AJ Chen (Nov 03 2020 at 18:12):
Maybe most providers have finished converting CCD to FHIR, and so the needs for cda - fhir conversion no longer exist. Anyone knows the status? Are organizations still dealing with ccd - fhir conversion problem?
Lloyd McKenzie (Nov 03 2020 at 19:26):
There are specific streams on #CCDA / FHIR mapping stream and #cda to fhir
Lloyd McKenzie (Nov 03 2020 at 19:28):
@Oliver Egger - should definitely get them to migrate from Skype to here :)
Oliver Egger (Nov 03 2020 at 20:44):
:grinning: @Lloyd McKenzie i remember the times #fhir was on skype ... i have the mdht still in my skype client since we were using it a few years ago in a project, i can leave them a message ...
Sean Muir (Nov 05 2020 at 20:18):
Update on MDHT, I am a committer on the project - The project itself has moved to eclipse - https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/modeling.mdht. The project has support for CDA and FHIR but the CDA is much more mature and complete. It used to support ONC CDA validation https://github.com/mdht/mdht/releases here There is no specific CDA to FHIR transformation support - An option there is open source MDMI which supports CDA to FHIR using a model driven approach. As far as teh java doc - the build is part of eclipse which should generate java docs will look into it
AJ Chen (Nov 06 2020 at 01:04):
@Sean Muir thanks for the update. once you find the link to eclipse mdht javadocs, please post here. Many folks are probably looking for it, too.
AJ Chen (Nov 24 2020 at 02:17):
@Sean Muir I am seeing a strange behavior with mdht ClinicalDocument.getSections() method. It works fine when processing CCD from file. But when processing CCD from postman POST request, setSections() returns cda.impl.SectionImpl objects (wrong) instead of specific section objects like cda.console.impl.EncountersSectionImpl. Any idea? thanks.
Sean Muir (Nov 25 2020 at 21:05):
You need to make sure the Consol 2 jar file is available in the class path and you will need to call CDAUtils.packages()
AJ Chen (Nov 28 2020 at 20:51):
@Sean Muir thanks
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