fhir

Type-safe FHIR resources and client

Warning

Breaking changes are planned for at least primitive extensions, implicit precision in decimal types, and date/datetime, possibly more. This package is published to get feedback on the most convenient ways to implement these. Lots of stuff will break until a version 1.

Welcome

FHIR® (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) is a standard for health care data exchange, published by HL7®. Gleam is simple and type-safe, making FHIR resources features like cardinality and choice types easy to work with. This package provides FHIR resources with JSON serialization, and a FHIR REST client with standard interactions (Create, Read, etc.) and operations. Supports R4, R4B, R5. Supporting everything in FHIR would be nice but the main priority is making common things friendly.

Docs are friendly too! Click -> Resources & Client <-

Quick Start

gleam new hello_fhir && cd hello_fhir && gleam add fhir

//In hello_fhir.gleam
import fhir/r4
import fhir/r4_httpc
import fhir/r4_valuesets
import gleam/option.{Some}

pub fn main() {
  let joe =
    r4.Patient(
      ..r4.patient_new(),
      identifier: [
        r4.Identifier(
          ..r4.identifier_new(),
          system: Some("https://fhir.nhs.uk/Id/nhs-number"),
          value: Some("0123456789"),
        ),
      ],
      name: [
        r4.Humanname(
          ..r4.humanname_new(),
          given: ["Joe"],
          family: Some("Armstrong"),
        ),
      ],
      gender: Some(r4_valuesets.AdministrativegenderMale),
      marital_status: Some(
        r4.Codeableconcept(..r4.codeableconcept_new(), coding: [
          r4.Coding(
            ..r4.coding_new(),
            system: Some(
              "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-MaritalStatus",
            ),
            code: Some("M"),
            display: Some("Married"),
          ),
        ]),
      ),
    )

  echo joe

  let client = r4_httpc.fhirclient_new("https://r4.smarthealthit.org/")

  let assert Ok(created) = r4_httpc.patient_create(joe, client)
  let assert Some(id) = created.id
  let assert Ok(read) = r4_httpc.patient_read(id, client)
  echo read
  let rip = r4.Patient(..read, deceased: Some(r4.PatientDeceasedBoolean(True)))
  let assert Ok(updated) = r4_httpc.patient_update(rip, client)
  echo updated
  let assert Ok(_) = r4_httpc.patient_delete(updated, client)
}

gleam run

Modules

(for each of r4, r4b, r5)

Other FHIR Docs

These pages provide only an intro to FHIR and the Gleam implementation. For comprehensive information, see the FHIR docs, e.g. for R4 AllergyIntolerance.

Gleam FHIR is not a mature project. For an application with real users and regulations, you are probably better off with a mature FHIR SDK such as https://docs.fire.ly/. These Gleam FHIR pages are modelled on their .NET SDK documentation.

https://chat.fhir.org/ is a public chatroom with many FHIR implementers. If you have a question, there is a good chance someone has asked it there.