fhir-patient-finder

This is a FHIR web application written in Python and using Flask as the backend.

Following are the FHIR server port numbers and the datasets hosted on that ports.

9090 -> synthea10 (demo dataset)
9091 -> synthea_ri_adult
9092 -> synthea_ri_peds

1. Dependencies

This app depends on Python 3 and a few Python packages outlined in the requirements.txt file.

2. Before running the app

Change these parameters in the .env file. Use the port number assigned to you to run the app for FHIR_PORT.

FHIR_SERVER_BASE_URL= http://pwebmedcit.services.brown.edu:????/fhir
FHIR_USERNAME = ???
FHIR_PASSWORD = ???
FHIR_PORT=????

3. Running the App

We begin by creating a Python virtual environment using the venv module. This is done by running the command below from the "root" of this repo.

python3 -m venv venv                 # create a virtual environment called venv

source venv/bin/activate             # activate our virtual environment

pip3 install -r requirements.txt     # install all our dependencies into the virtual environment

After the above steps, we should be able to launch our app using the following command.

python3 src/app.py

This will start the app on port "FHIR_PORT". You can open your preferred browser and see the app running on http://localhost:FHIR_PORT replace the FHIR_PORT with the actual port number assigned to you. The exact URL to the app can also be found on the terminal output after running the app.