gnuhealth-fhir-server 0.9b3

Installation

The GNU Health FHIR server is pip installable

The server requires Flask and a few of its addons. And, of course, a working GNU Health HMIS instance.

$ pip3 install –upgrade –user gnuhealth-fhir-server

Configuration

The server ships with a simple production config file (server/config.py). However, it needs to be edited.:

TRYTON_DATABASE = ''    # GNU Health database
SERVER_NAME = ''        # Domain name of the server (e.g., fhir.example.com)
SECRET_KEY = ''         # Set this value to a long and random string

Security

Use TLS. Sensitive medical information must be protected and confidential.

By default, all FHIR endpoints except the Conformance statement require user authentication. The user authentication and access follows Tryton’s model, respecting model and field access rights.

The same credentials used to sign into GNU Health are used to access the FHIR REST server.

Running the server

For development, you can just run the fhir_server python program.

For production environments, you should run it from a WSGI container, such as gunicorn, uWSGI or Tornado.

• server_tornado: Runs the GNUHealth FHIR server behind tornado

• server_gunicorn: Runs the GNUHealth FHIR server behind tornado

The log file will be stored at the user’s home directory, with the name “fhir_server.log”.

Technology

The GNU Health HMIS FHIR server is built on Flask technology (http://flask.pocoo.org/) .

More information about Flask and its addons used in GNU Health FHIR server:

• Flask

• Flask-Login

• Flask-Tryton

• Flask-Restful

• Flask-WTF

Development

The development of GNU Health is on GNU Savannah, using the Mercurial repository.

Tasks, bugs and mailing lists will be on health-dev@gnu.org , for development.

General discussion is done at health@gnu.org mailing list.

Homepage

https://www.gnuhealth.org

Documentation

The GNU Health FHIR server documentation will be at the corresponding chapter in the GNU Health Wikibook

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_Health

Support GNU Health

GNU Health is a project of GNU Solidario. GNU Solidario is an Non-profit Non-goverment-Organization (NGO) that works globally, focused on Social Medicine.

Health and education are the basis for the development and dignity of societies.

You can also donate to our project via :

https://www.gnuhealth.org/donate/

In addition, you can show your long time commitment to GNU Health by becoming a member of GNU Solidario, so together we can further deliver Freedom and Equity in Healthcare around the World.

https://my.gnusolidario.org/join-us/

GNU Solidario hosts IWEEE and GnuHealthCon:

The International Workshop on e-Health in Emerging Economies- a good way to support GNU Solidario and to get the latest on e-Health is to assist to the conferences.

https://www.gnuhealthcon.org/

Need help to implement GNU Health ?

We are committed to do our best in helping out projects that can improve the health of your country or region. We want the project to be a success, and since our resources are limited, we need to work together to make a great and sustainable project.

In order to be elegible, we need the following information from you, your NGO or government:

• An introduction of the current needs

• The project will only use Libre software technology

• There will be a local designated person that will be in charge of the project and the know-how transfer to the rest of the community.This person must be committed to be from the beginning of the project until two years after its completion.

• There must be a commitment of knowledge transfer to the rest of the team.

We will do our best to help you out with the implementation and training for the local team, to build local capacity and make your project sustainable.

Please contect us and we’ll back to you as soon as possible:

Thank you !
Dr. Luis Falcón, MD, MSc
Author and project leader
falcon@gnuhealth.org

Email

info@gnuhealth.org

Twitter: @gnuhealth

License

GNU Health, the Libre Digital Health ecosystem, is licensed under GPL v3+:

Copyright (C) 2008-2020 Luis Falcon <falcon@gnuhealth.org>
Copyright (C) 2011-2020 GNU Solidario <health@gnusolidario.org>

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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