Publicly Available FHIR Servers for testing

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Introduction

This page lists FHIR servers that are publically available for testing. In order to avoid spam etc, the servers are generally password protected. A contact is provided to get a password.

List

Note that these servers are testing servers. They may be sporadically unavailable, and as the FHIR specification is a moving target, they may not always implement the latest version, or do so correctly.

• http://hl7connect.healthintersections.com.au/svc/fhir/ - Grahame's test server.
  • Supports all resource types, all operations, xml + json
  • implementation details: delphi code/sql server, uses the delphi reference implementation
  • also available using SSL at https://hl7connect.healthintersections.com.au/svc/fhir/
  • also available as an OAuth secured endpoint at http://hl7connect.healthintersections.com.au/svc/secure/fhir/ (and https too) see Health Intersections FHIR Server OAuth documentation
• http://spark.furore.com - Ewout's test server (previously fhir.furore.com)
  • Supports all resource types, all operations, xml + json
  • implementation details: C# reference implementation, WCF Rest library, Mongo DB for storage, Lucene for search. Server is running on AppHarbor, Mongo at MongoHQ, and storage of binary is done on Amazon S3
  • http://fhir.furore.com/fhir is the actual end point
• http://nprogram.azurewebsites.net/ - Rik Smithies/NProgram test server
  • person and patient resources, read only (C#)
• http://oridashi.com.au/fhir/ - Brett Esler/Oridashi demo servers overview
  • read-only implementation: .NET 2.0, C#, self-host web server, SQL Server DB - legacy CIS
  • End point #1: 'Best Practice CIS' http://demo.oridashi.com.au:8190/
  • End point #2: 'Medical Director CIS' http://demo.oridashi.com.au:8191/

SSL Fix

On Grahame's SSL server the SSL trust certificate is not signed by a known Cert Authority. At least in JAVA or SCALA to get the resources you will have to set up a trustStore and manually import the cert from the server and assert that it is trusted.

To create the trustStore use the Java utility called keytool. First create a trustStore in the directory of your choice like this.

keytool -genkeypair -keyalg RSA -keysize 1024 -dname "CN=hl7.kp.org, OU=Pleasanton, O=Kaiser Permanente , L=Corona, S=California, C=US, EMAILADDRESS=Me@server.com" -validity 365 -keystore fhirTruststore

Note you will be prompted for a new password. Choose one and remember it.

You can obtain the cert from Grahame's server with various browsers, instructions differ.

Once you have the cert add it as a trusted cert to the trustStore like this, the cert file is fhir_der_x509.cer.

keytool -import -trustcacerts -alias hl7.kp.org -file fhir_der_x509.cer -keystore fhirTruststore

You can confirm it worked with this line.

keytool -list -v -keystore fhirTruststore

Now that you have that done, know the directory you put it, and know the password, then in your JAVA code you must add these lines.

   System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStore", "/Users/peterhendler/development/FHIR/certificates/fhirTruststore");
   System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword", "fhirdemo");

Finally, and this is important, you can not use the URL published above. The cert is actually from Amazon AWS so you must connect like this.

url = new URL("https://ec2-107-20-116-177.compute-1.amazonaws.com/svc/fhir/people/@34234");

Note the server name been has changed.