CCDA REST API

A CCDA REST API was developed to make it quick and super easy for developers to parse and retrieve information from CCDA documents.

Here is the demo site.

API Operations

POST /bbplus

Add or update a patient record from a BlueButton+/CCDA file.

Parameters:

Inputs:

• bbfile: An XML string representation of the BlueButton+ file in the CCDA format. If the same patient data is posted at a later date, the API updates the stored record with the updated information. The uniqueness is determined based on the MRN/Institution data in the XML (see example below).

• op_format: Specify output format "xml" or "json"

Output:

• patient_id: An API-specific patient identifier token (string) that can be used to query further information for this patient.

• status: The processing status of the XML ("processing", "completed", "failed").

GET /bbplus/<patient_id>/<section>

Get specific section of the patient record

Parameters:

Input:

• patient_id: The unique identifier of the patient record returned by the API on the POST of the BlueButton+ file.

• section: The specific section to retrieve in the output. The section parameter can be any one of the following:

  1. demographics
  2. problems
  3. medications
  4. allergies
  5. results
  6. procedures [NotSupported]
  7. encounters [NotSupported]
  8. socialhistory [NotSupported]

• op_format: Specify output format "xml" or "json"

Output:

• status: The processing status of the XML ("processing", "completed", "failed").

• patient_record: An XML or JSON representation of the requested section. The format of individual sections are described in the table.

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Requirements

• JDK 1.6

• Eclipse Juno release or higher

• Dependencies (included in the project)

• MDHT Runtime 1.0.0.201302191803

• Eclipse EMF Core 2.5

• RESTlet

• Gson 2.2.3

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Installation/Set up

1. Clone this repository onto your local
2. Import the directory as an Eclipse project.
3. Export as a "Runnable Jar"
4. Run the application as java -jar ccda-parser-runnable.jar <port_number>

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TODOs

• Add parsers for currently not supported sections
• Add a creators to support creating a CCDA document using the REST query
• Add authentication, rate throttling, logging capabilities

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LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2013 by Applied Informatics Inc. Licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.