FHIR Patient Summary Document Generator

This package allows you to generate a patient summary in docx or pdf format from a single patient ID or a list of patient IDs.

Prerequisites

python3.7 or later

flask

FHIR-patient-summary library

Dotnet

This dotnet application must be running for the library to work.

libreoffice (if you want patient summaries in pdf format)

Steps to run the API locally

Step 1 - Clone this repository

Clone this repository and open it in a terminal.

Step 2 - Installation of dependencies

1. Use the package manager pip to install FHIR-Patient-Summary.

pip install FHIR-Patient-Summary

2. Install Flask

pip install Flask

3. Follow the steps here to install dotnet

4. (Optional) Follow the instructions here to install libreoffice. Note: this installation is only required if you would like to create patient summaries in pdf format.

Step 3 - start dotnet server

Please follow the instructions here to get the dotnet server running.

Step 4 - run flask server

Open a new terminal window and navigate the directory you cloned from this repository.

Change directory to Flask-API

To start the Flask server locally on port 3000 run:

flask run -h localhost -p 3000

Step 5 - test the server

On your browser of choice, test the following:

Single patient in docx format

localhost:3000/getPatientSummaryDocument?patientID=8f789d0b-3145-4cf2-8504-13159edaa747&format=docx

Single patient in pdf format

localhost:3000/getPatientSummaryDocument?patientID=8f789d0b-3145-4cf2-8504-13159edaa747&format=pdf

Multiple patients

Get summary documents for the patients indexed from 10 to 50:

localhost:3000/getMultiplePatientSummaryDocuments?start=10&end=50