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PHI Deidentification Portal

Installation Instructions

Deployment Steps –

1. Clone or Fork repo

2. Create a new Storage Account
   a. az storage account create -n storageaccount -g resourcegroup --sku Standard_LRS

3. Create a Storage Account container for document uploads
   a. az storage container create -n container --account-name storageaccount

4. Create a new Azure AI multi-service resource
   a. az cognitiveservices account create –name aiservice --resource-group resourcegroup --kind CognitiveServices --sku Standard --yes

5. Create a new Azure AI Search instance
   a. az search service create --name searchservice --resource-group resourcegroup –sku standard

6. Create the Cosmos NoSQL database
   a. az cosmosdb create --name cosmosdb --resource-group resourcegroup --kind GlobalDocumentDB --locations regionName=EastUS
   b. az cosmosdb sql container create -g resourcegroup -a cosmosaccountname -d "deid" -n "metadata" --partition-key-path "/uri"

7. Create two new App Service Plans – one for the Web application and one for standard Functions
   a. az appservice plan create -g resourcegroup -n plan1 --sku S1
   b. az appservice plan create -g resourcegroup -n plan2 --sku S1

8. Create a new Azure Function instance for the metadata sync and custom skill
   a. az functionapp create --name functionapp --os-type Windows --resource-group resourcegroup --runtime dotnet --storage-account storageaccount --plan plan1
   b. Publish the Azure Function to the Function App Service

9. Create the Web application for the DeID Web Portal
   a. az resource update --resource-group resourcegroup --name scm --namespace Microsoft.Web --resource-type basicPublishingCredentialsPolicies --parent sites/{appname} --set properties.allow=true
   b. Publish the Web solution to the Web App Service
   c. az webapp identity assign -g resourcegroup -n appname
   d. az role assignment create --assignee systemassignedidentityguid --role "Storage Blob Data Contributor" --scope storageaccountid
   e. az ad app create --display-name DeIdWeb --web-redirect-uris https://{appName}.azurewebsites.net/signin-oidc

10. Deploy the metadata sync and custom Function app by configuring the Azure Function to pull from your forked GH repo or by cloning the repo and doing a publish.

11. Create the AI Search Index, Custom Skill and Indexer definitions (in that order) using the three JSON configuration files in the search-config folder of the Repo

12. Upload documents to the Blob Storage Container created in #3 and ensure the Indexer is running.

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