Stream: bulk data
Topic: non FHIR content
Simone Heckmann (Jun 21 2018 at 12:20):
How does Bulk Data handle non-FHIR content such as PDF documents? Do these need to be represented as Binary resources with Base64 content or is there another way?
Josh Mandel (Jun 21 2018 at 12:21):
So far our focus has been to create a specification for exporting fhir data. What are some examples you're thinking about where you would get PDFs?
Simone Heckmann (Jun 21 2018 at 12:36):
Exporting patient's data may have DocumentReferences with attached PDFs or other non-FHIR documents.
Simone Heckmann (Jun 21 2018 at 12:38):
We are looking at Bulk data for migrating a) one Patient's data and b) all data from one system to another. Both potentially contain any number of non-FHIR documents
Josh Mandel (Jun 21 2018 at 12:38):
Great -- so an embedded PDF (embedded in the attachment datatype) would obviously be conveyed in the same embedded way that it originated. Otherwise for references... that's another interesting question.
Josh Mandel (Jun 21 2018 at 12:39):
The default answers would be: ndjson file of Binary resources. I'm not sure I like it, but seems worth evaluating.
Simone Heckmann (Jun 21 2018 at 13:36):
I'm not sure I like it either :thinking_face:
Grahame Grieve (Jun 22 2018 at 16:08):
I am producing ndjson of binary now
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