FHIR Roast is a bare-bones FHIR Terminology Service written in TypeScript. Is is intended to be used as a building block for applications requiring a FHIR Terminology Service. It's main driving philosophy is to be extensible such as to be easily modified by developers to suit their needs.
- It should be developed using a plugin architecture and easy to extend.
- It should be easy to add new terminologies or code systems.
- It should have fast lookups and be read optimized to be used in data ingestion processes.
FHIR is a standard for exchanging healthcare information electronically. It is a standard that is developed by HL7 and is used by many healthcare organizations around the world. For more information, see FHIR.
A FHIR Terminology Service is a server that provides access to terminology content. It is a server that implements the FHIR Terminology Service specification. For more information, see FHIR Terminology Service.
To install dependencies:
bun installTo run:
bun run index.tsThis project was created using bun init in bun v1.0.14. Bun is a fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime.
You can acquire a copy of the SNOMED CT US Edition or International Edition from the National Library of Medicine:
- https://www.nlm.nih.gov/healthit/snomedct/us_edition.html
- https://www.nlm.nih.gov/healthit/snomedct/international.html
Extract the content of the archive into the data/SNOMED directory.
The SNOMED CT terminology will be auto-loaded by the SNOMED plugin.