Provider Directory Prototype

Purpose

Explore technical considerations required to build a HC Directory for Federal Partners

Goals

Deliver working software

— Explore standards (RestFul APIs etc.)

Explore implementing call to Action from ONC Interoperability Roadmap

Prototype

Used NPPPES and Physician Compare Organization mapping data – Support complex organizational relationships
Search
FHIR and IHE protocol support

Architecture

Datastore: Postgres (Rich search and Geo-spatial features)
Application Service Tier (Ruby on Rails) : RESTful, FHIR, HPD User Interfaces: Web Search. could be implemented in EHR, Fraud systems etc.

Basic RESTful

Simple search.
Designed for machine to machine interaction
JSON data structure

FHIR RESTful

Practitioners
Organizations

IHE HPD Interface

SOAP
DSML
More complex than REST

Analysis / Challenges

Biggest challenges are not technical
Governance and stewardship are the hard problems
Different target environments may need different search requirements

Next Steps

Pilot to validate understanding of requirements
Project is open source on github Medirectory/medirectory

Presenter: Peter Krautscheid, MITRE/ Vanita Khetan, MITRE

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