IRIS Interoperability DevTools (iris-ccd-devtools)

One of the biggest challenges for health data integration and interoperability is orchestrating between different message formats and standards, most notably the Big Three: HL7, CCDA, and FHIR.

The InterSystems IRIS product suite provides a robust toolset including templates and a pre-build code base for handling all three of these standards, but the challenge for developers is accessing the code base in a quick and reliable way without having to dig deep into configuration or code.

The IRIS Interoperability DevTools (formerly IRIS CCD DevTools) allows developers to test CCD and FHIR messages against the code base in the backend of an IRIS for Health instance, while providing visbility and user-friendly tools. With these development tools, health data implementers, developers, and analysts can rapidly inspect and test messages, increasing the speed of IRIS adoption and health data mastery.

Platform: This application is installed IRIS for Health, but the dashboard is compatible with IRIS for Health or HealthShare/UCR. The front-end is built on NextJS. The build instantiates both IRIS for Health Community and a React environment running on Node 18-alpine to run the UI

Version 2.0 Updates

This current version has these additional features:

• Improved Dashboard with additional user instruction
• Additional FHIR to SDA and SDA to FHIR testing tools on dashboard
• Two additional endpoints and APIs on the service to support FHIR testing
• Added “SDA to CCDA” testing API on service

Contributors

Chi Nguyen-Rettig (LEAD North)

Nathan Holt (LEAD North)

Shawntelle Madison-Coker (LEAD North)

Inspiration

To create a user-friendly front-end to organize several testing utilities and methods used to accelerate FHIR and CCD analysis transformation development.

What it does

1. Backend: A /csp/visualizer/service web application in IRIS with endpoints for XPath evaluation, XSLT, CCD to SDA, FHIR to SDA, and SDA to FHIR transformation testing.
2. Frontend: A graphical Development Tools portal built in NextJS React makes it easy to load data from files or copy/paste data for testing.

Getting Started