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⁠Model FHIR Proxy (Node, Moleculer, Postgres)

Web: Yorkshire and Humber Care Record⁠
Twitter: @YHCareRecord⁠

Web: Synanetics⁠
Twitter: @Synanetics⁠

Git: https://github.com/yorkshire-and-humber-care-record/fhir-appliance⁠

⁠What is the Model FHIR Proxy?

The Model FHIR Proxy is a FHIR server which is being built by the Yorkshire and Humber Care Record⁠ (YHCR) project team as part of their work with the NHS England Local Health and Care Record Exampler⁠ (LHCRE) programme. A public git repository will be available soon but for now interested parties and indeed members of the YHCR programme are encouraged to use the software via the docker and node components hosted here. The Model FHIR Proxy has been developed using a stack of open source software and health care interoperability standards, namely:

Fast Healthcare Interoperable Resources - FHIR⁠ Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources is a standard describing data formats and elements and an application programming interface for exchanging electronic health records. The standard was created by the Health Level Seven International health-care standards organization.

Moleculer.js⁠ A Progressive microservices framework for Node.js.

PostgreSQL⁠ PostgreSQL, also known as Postgres, is a free and open-source relational database management system emphasizing extensibility and technical standards compliance. It is designed to handle a range of workloads, from single machines to data warehouses or Web services with many concurrent users.

Docker⁠ Docker is a set of coupled software-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service products that use operating-system-level virtualization to develop and deliver software in packages called containers.

The Model FHIR Proxy is being developed in accordance to a series of technical papers⁠ produced by the YHCR⁠. Each design paper describes a set of "model" software components and architectures that, when realised, can enable health and social care organisations to share data using FHIR⁠.

The Model FHIR Proxy is very much a work in progress and will keep evolving in step with both the LHCRE and YHCR programmes. The overall aim, however, is that the server will provide an out of the box, open source solution to health and social care organisations who require the ability to share data using FHIR. It is very much hoped that the code base here will be developed by clinicians, engineers, architects and healthcare interoperability standards bodies.

⁠How do I run these images?

Check out this git repo⁠ for full instructions.

⁠Which image should I use?

Images tagged with :latest are currently used in production and are stable. All other tags reflect work that is ongoing and are updated regularly whilst in development. Pull these if you'd like to test out new features in non-production environments.