FHIR R4 Subscription API

Overview

This asset is a component of MuleSoft Accelerator for Healthcare.

MuleSoft Accelerator for Healthcare enables healthcare providers to unlock critical patient data to build a patient 360 within Salesforce Health Cloud, faster and easier than ever before. The solution includes pre-built APIs, connectors, integration templates, and prescriptive end-to-end reference architecture to bring patient demographics information and COVID-19 test results from any EHR into Health Cloud using HL7 V2 or FHIR standards.

The solution also provides a library of United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) and FHIR R4 resources to help healthcare developers adhere to interoperability needs and jumpstart the development of healthcare digital transformation initiatives.

Use case covered

Once a subscription is created, any newly created or updated resources that meet the criteria in the resource cause a notification to be sent using the provided channel. The criteria are Search strings that have the same interpretation as if they were appended to the base URL and submitted using the REST API. Note that the search criteria are applied to the new value of the resource. The consequence of this is that there is no notification when a resource is deleted, or when a resource is updated so that it no longer meets the criteria.

The server is able to send notifications without any information about the matching resource, or with the entire resource.

Several different types of channels are supported:

• rest-hook: A post is made to the URL identified in the Subscription resource. If the subscription requests that the whole resource is included, the URL is interpreted as the service base
• websocket: A PING message is sent to the designated URI
• email/sms: A notification is sent to the nominated email address or SMS number
• message: The resource is sent to the application identified in the URI as a message

See below for further discussion of the various channels. Note that sending the entire resource creates security concerns that must be managed by the server.

Subscriptions are active resources; a server can only accept a subscription if it will execute the specified channel for any resources subsequently received. The subscription is no longer active once it is deleted from the server.

This API uses FHIR R4 Subscription Library.

More information about FHIR R4 Subscription specification can be found here.