GSoC 2020 : Add Support for FHIR Narratives

Owned by Ian Bacher
Last updated: Aug 29, 2020 by Shivansh Rakesh
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Primary mentor

@Herbert Yiga

Backup mentor

@Ian Bacher @Suthagar Kailayapathy

Assigned to

@Shivansh Rakesh

Abstract

FHIR is an emerging standard for healthcare interoperability. While OpenMRS has been an early adopter of the FHIR standard, there is still work to do to get our FHIR implementation working properly. This project focuses on implementing support for FHIR narratives. FHIR narratives are human-readable representations of a FHIR resource. Basically, they provides a simple XHTML web fragment that includes all the relevant content. The main objective for this project is to not only create narratives for all the resources defined and handled by the OpenMRS FHIR module, but also to develop a framework which will let implementations define and specify their own templates for FHIR narratives.

Project Champions

  • @Ian Bacher

Skills Needed

  • Some familiarity with Java

  • Familiarity with HTML / XHTML and especially HTML templating

Objectives

  • Create FHIR narratives for all resources defined by OpenMRS FHIR module (Completed)

  • Develop a framework to support implementation-driven overrides for FHIR narratives (Completed)

  • Add support for localization of the generated narratives. (Completed)

Extra Credit

  • Implement search for FHIR resources using the _text parameter

  • Develop standardized class names for elements to assist front-end code with proper styling and interpretation (Completed)

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