Sending FHIR resources in Direct Messages

this page describes how to send FHIR resources in direct messages.

Overview

For direct, FHIR resources are just another kind of Health Content Package. There's nothing different about FHIR resources from the point of view of Direct, but this page provides some additional details:

• How FHIR resources are represented, for complete interoperability
• The relationship between addressing information inside the FHIR resources, and on the Direct messages

Representing FHIR resources

• one of the entries in a mime package
• using one of the FHIR mime types (e.g. application/fhir+xml or application/fhir+json)
• Always a bundle. type = Document, Collection, or Mesages
  • Document: standard document handling implications apply
  • Collection: expectation that the system decomposes into a RESTful API available store. Update semantics to be applied
  • Message: treat as a message, response in a new Direct messages (not in the MDN)

Relationship between addresses

• if a bundle of type message
• sender and recipient must match the email addresses on the direct message?

Example

This is not encrypted, but otherwise this is what it looks like:

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