FHIR

FHIR Search with POST

• FHIR Search with POST
  • How to use
  • Background / Motivation
  • The data-test.txt file
  • Further readings
  • Thanks

How to use

1. Copy the default.env to .env and adapt the value(s) to your needs
2. Run test_post.sh

Background / Motivation

• With GET requests, the request and all sent parameters (potentially containing sensitive information) may be logged
• With POST FHIR-Search requests, the URL is always like https://your-fhir-server/fhir/Patient/_search but with all sensitive content in its body
• GET requests are limited in length. The body of the POST request isn't

The data-test.txt file

Scheme:

param1=value1&param2=value2

Further readings

• https://build.fhir.org/http.html#search
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/healthcare-apis/fhir/search-samples#search-using-post
• http://hl7.org/fhir/http.html#search

Thanks

Thanks to @subfuzion for his curl gist here: https://gist.github.com/subfuzion/08c5d85437d5d4f00e58!