Stream: smart/scheduling-links
Topic: Epic support!
Josh Mandel (Apr 02 2021 at 16:31):
Thanks @Cooper Thompson for your help in putting this together! https://fhir.epic.com/Resources/file/covidsmartschedulinglinks is awesome to see.
Henry Wei (Apr 03 2021 at 00:47):
Hey @Josh Mandel will there be an opportunity to run through different types of Availability-focused use cases at the Connectathon? Esp “categorical” availability scans (eg looking across multiple endpoints to piece together current availability at multiple locations)?
This “categorical” availability seems to be a pressing need systemically and is causing a bit of thrash with different amateur/volunteer services springing up to manually check for availability.
Thanks,
Henry
... On behalf of some Engineering friends who still don’t seem to be in this chat yet! :)
Josh Mandel (Apr 03 2021 at 00:48):
Yeah, this would be a great thing for folks to try out!
Josh Mandel (Apr 03 2021 at 00:50):
(@Nick Robison is building an aggregator, so if you wanted to focus specifically on the data analysis you could use output from his server as a starting point -- or you can build a client to query/aggregate the Slot Providers directly.)
Henry Wei (Apr 03 2021 at 00:52):
Thanks @Josh Mandel .
It could be useful if, say, a planetary-scale Search engine were to crawl periodically for general availability (or receive it) and display it to search users to help relieve the server load on the end-servers. Hypothetically, that is.
Nick Robison (Apr 05 2021 at 14:21):
Would love to dig into this more. I've been thinking around this in a couple of ways but would love to chat more about potential use cases. My current focus has been on supporting end user applications (e.g. find all the available slots within 50 miles of me for the next 24 hours). The repo is here: https://github.com/nickrobison-usds/vaccine-scheduler. Pretty early stage at this point, but has basic functionality.
Rob Brackett (Apr 09 2021 at 17:46):
FWIW, this is what I’ve been doing with US Digital Response with the State of NJ (https://covid19.no.gov/finder) and now with other states. We just have no providers using this standard, so it’s mainly been a mix of provider-specific APIs and scraping.
Last updated: Apr 12 2022 at 19:14 UTC
