These were the user stories designed to drive the priorities for the initial release for the Webservices.rest Module while it was being created. See that page for up-to-date documentation
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Show a patient summary
Fetch a patient, their encounters, and their observations.
- Find a patient by identifier
GET /ws/rest/patient?q=123MT2
- Representation: default
- JSON Return Value
{ uuid: "1AA43D-324-AFE8349AC", uri: "https://foo.com/ws/rest/patient/1AA43D-324-AFE8349AC", display: "John A. Doe (93498309234)", name: "John A. Doe", identifier: 9349, identifierType: { display: "Hospital X Identifier Number", uuid: "342834239234", identifiers: [ {display: "9349 (Hospital X Identification Number)", uuid: "00AF-55-111", uri: "https://foo.com/openmrs/ws/rest/patient/1AA43D-324-AFE8349AC/identifier/00AF-55-111"},{display: "AA-4 (Hospital Y Id Number", uuid: "123", uri: "https://foo.com/openmrs/ws/rest/patient/1AA43D-324-AFE8349AC/identifier/123"} ] gender: "M", birthdate: "1955-05-25", voided: false, dead: false }
- Get last 10 encounters for patient
GET /ws/rest/encounter?patient=1AA43D-324-AFE8349AC&limit=10
- or
GET /ws/rest/patient/1AA43D-324-AFE8349AC/encounters?limit=10
- or
- Representation: default
- JSON Return Value
[ { uuid: "029434-AA-32EE", uri: "https://foo.com/ws/rest/encounter/029434-AA-32EE", display: "Adult Return Hospital X encounterDatetime: "2000-05-25 14:05:03", patient: { display: "John A. Doe (123-0)", uuid: "1AA43D-324-AFE8349AC", uri: "https://foo.com/openmrs/ws/rest/patient/1AA43D-324-AFE8349AC" }, location: { display: "Hospital X", uuid: "39209-324-999", uri: "https://foo.com/openmrs/ws/rest/location/39209-324-999" }, form: { display: "Outpatient Form", uuid: "F23BCA-324-22", uri: "https://foo.com/openmrs/ws/rest/form/F23BCA-324-22" }, encounterType: { display: "Adult Return", uuid: "123CA-324-22", uri: "https://foo.com/openmrs/ws/rest/encountertype/123CA-324-22" }, provider: { display: "Susan B Anthony (6400-6)", uuid: "392A-324-111", uri: "https://foo.com/openmrs/ws/rest/provider/392A-324-111" }, obs: [ { display: "WEIGHT (KG) = 70", uuid: "BBB-324-111", uri: "https://foo.com/openmrs/ws/rest/obs/BBB-324-111" },{ display: "TRANSPORTATION METHOD = VELOCIRAPTOR", uuid: "0019-324-111", uri: "https://foo.com/openmrs/ws/rest/obs/0019-324-111" } ] }, orders: [{ ... }, { ... } ] }, { encounterDatetime: ... ... } ]
- Representation: partial
- JSON Return Value
[ { uuid: "029434-AA-32EE", uri: "https://foo.com/ws/rest/encounter/029434-AA-32EE", display: "Adult Return Hospital X encounterDatetime: "2000-05-25 14:05:03", patient: { display: "John A. Doe (123-0)", uuid: "1AA43D-324-AFE8349AC", uri: "https://foo.com/openmrs/ws/rest/patient/1AA43D-324-AFE8349AC" }, name: "John A Doe", identifier: "123-0", identifierType: "asdf", identifiers { (list of identifier refs) }, }, location: { display: "Hospital X", uuid: "39209-324-999", uri: "https://foo.com/openmrs/ws/rest/location/39209-324-999" }, form: { display: "Outpatient Form", uuid: "F23BCA-324-22", uri: "https://foo.com/openmrs/ws/rest/form/F23BCA-324-22" }, encounterType: { display: "Adult Return", uuid: "123CA-324-22", uri: "https://foo.com/openmrs/ws/rest/encountertype/123CA-324-22" }, provider: { display: "Susan B Anthony (6400-6)", uuid: "392A-324-111", uri: "https://foo.com/openmrs/ws/rest/provider/392A-324-111" }, obs: [ { display: "WEIGHT (KG) = 70", uuid: "BBB-324-111", uri: "https://foo.com/openmrs/ws/rest/obs/BBB-324-111" },{ display: "TRANSPORTATION METHOD = VELOCIRAPTOR", uuid: "0019-324-111", uri: "https://foo.com/openmrs/ws/rest/obs/0019-324-111" } ] }, orders: [{ ... }, { ... } ] }, { uuid: , display: , uuid: , encounterDatetime: ... ... } ]
Create a new encounter, or edit an existing encounter
In this story, the client could be a form entry tool.
- Create an encounter and observations in one swoop
POST /ws/rest/encounter
- POST Request post content
{ encounterDatetime: "2000-05-25 14:05:03", patient: "1AA43D-324-AFE8349AC", location: "Hospital X", form: "F23BCA-324-22", encounterType: "123CA-324-22", provider: "392A-324-111", obs: [ { question="034892-AA-3248", answer="70" },{ question="034892-AA-3248", answer="222-EE-222" } ] }
- Returns back a default representation of the encounter (as shown in previous use case)
- Edit an encounter metadata
PUT /ws/rest/encounter/029434-AA-32EE
- POST Request post content
{ encounterDatetime: "2000-05-26 14:05:03", location: "Hospital Y" }
- Returns back a default representation of the encounter (as shown in previous previous use case)
See what patients are in a named cohort
A counselor in the field using a mobile device needs to review a list of patients to be interviewed.
- Search for cohorts by name
GET /ws/rest/cohort?name=
partialname
- Get cohort by uuid
GET /ws/rest/cohort/
cohortsuuid
Data entry from a mobile device
- Search a patient
GET /ws/rest/patient?q=123MT-2
GET /ws/rest/patient?q=Joe+Bob
- Fetch past encounters for patient
GET /ws/rest/encounter?patient=
uuid-of-patient
- Add a new encounter
POST /ws/rest/encounter
- content is json key/value pairs
External lab system needs to submit lab results to OpenMRS
- Search locations
GET /ws/rest/location?name=MTRH
- Search patients by name and/or identifier
- (see above)
New OpenMRS admin wants to import some old encounter data into OpenMRS
- Add patient
POST to /ws/rest/patient
- content is json key/value pairs
- Add a new encounter
- See above
Submitting HL7 messages to the HL7 inbound queue
- Insert hl7 into hl7_in_queue
POST to /ws/rest/hl7
- POST Request post content
{ message: "KLJSDF||||SDF|S|DF|||||S|DF|S|F" }
Authentication
In all cases, the client will need to authenticate before it can access the resources.
- Request token
POST to /ws/rest/login
- Use HTTP Digest of username and password
- Response from POST
{ token: "af3je3jkLm7" }
- Pass the token in the header for all subsequent requests
- Logout
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POST to /ws/rest/logout
- Invalidates token.
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