Stream: smart/scheduling-links
Topic: Publisher: Walgreens
Josh Mandel (Apr 16 2021 at 14:59):
I've added to the Connectathon spreadsheet some details for a Walgreens $bulk-publish endpoint, working with the team there to wrap their existing API. It's not yet compliant, but it's a start (with caveats described in the comments).
Josh Mandel (May 13 2021 at 20:27):
I've got an updated version of Walgreens data being published now to https://wbaschedulinglinks.blob.core.windows.net/fhir/$bulk-publish -- a few notes:
- Added NPI for each location -- these are available for each pharmacy location and presumably are good cross-organizational identifiers. Do others have/use NPIs for locations? (FHIR defines an Identifier System of
http://hl7.org/fhir/sid/us-npifor these, which is what I'm using.) - Added lat/lon for each location
- Added county for each location
- Latency of slot data is now ~0-5 min, rather than the 0-20min I had previously
Rob Brackett (May 17 2021 at 20:22):
I was a little unclear from the call last week and didn't have much luck getting in touch with Amy Park about it: is this effectively Walgreens’s official API right now?
Josh Mandel (May 18 2021 at 01:54):
We can continue to try to clarify this; I'm still hoping to hear about finer grained access. In the meantime, I think "effectively" this is the official Scheduling Links API, so what you say is correct (though to be clear, Walgreens does have a non-standards-based official API, which is currently the source for what I've published above).
Rob Brackett (May 18 2021 at 02:37):
:thumbs_up: Thanks, that helps! I’ll start using this ASAP, and will also make sure to ask about it in the call tomorrow.
Last updated: Apr 12 2022 at 19:14 UTC
