This blog has been authored by Eva Chen, Program Manager, Microsoft Health and Life Sciences
We recently announced the release of the Azure Health Data Services Toolkit, an open-source project that enables our customers to more easily customize and extend the functionality of their Azure Health Data Services implementations.
A developer-centric toolkit for customization
With the growth of health data workloads on Azure, we’ve found that developers need ways to build custom scenarios on top of our services. Currently, users do not have a consistent and developer-centric approach to allow customization or an easy way to run custom code with Azure Health Data Services. The Azure Health Data Services Toolkit provides patterns and a consistent toolset for our customers and partners to make these customizations and extends the functionality of Azure Health Data Services with a minimum amount of custom code. We’ve abstracted common patterns that we see in customizations and turned them into reusable and modular patterns, thus reducing time spent writing custom code. This toolkit gives all of our customers and partners a framework for consistent implementation.
Helping unlock custom use cases
Some example FHIR use cases that customers can implement using this toolkit include:
- FHIR operations that are not supported by Azure Health Data Services yet such as trial implementation guides, organization-specific operations and less widely adopted operations.
- Implementation guide development.
- Transforming request and/or response payloads.
- Custom authorization logic like consent.
- Building specialized components inside of a custom data ingestion pipeline.
The toolkit is used to create custom operations, which can be used in a wide range of custom use cases to unlock customer scenarios.
"MultiCare anticipates this toolkit will be useful in a variety of cases,” said Anna Taylor, associate vice president of MultiCare. “We are evaluating its use for quality reporting purposes to reduce the duplicative work of reporting the same measures to multiple payors.”
Speed up time-to-market
The Azure Health Data Services Toolkit is unique in the industry, and can help reduce solution complexity. This toolkit can help customers build new features and deliver use cases more quickly.
We invite you to explore the Azure Health Data Services Toolkit here if you have a need for customizations on Azure Health Data Services. If you have specific use cases that are not covered with our managed service, please consider using this toolkit to help achieve those scenarios. If you have any questions or feedback on other patterns that you’d like us to include in the toolkit, please raise an issue in GitHub.
FHIR® is the registered trademark of HL7 and is used with the permission of HL7.
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