CDCgov/dibbs-query-connector
A FHIR client allowing public health agencies to query health care organizations directly or via a TEFCA QHIN
DIBBs Query Connector
Overview
This repository is a part of the CDC DIBBs project and seeks to build the DIBBs Query Connector.
The DIBBs Query Connector app offers a REST API and comprehensive UI for public health staff to query a wide network of healthcare organizations (HCOs), providing access to more complete and timely data.
The Query Connector is a tool for public health practitioners to quickly retrieve patient records and relevant case information from HCOs. The tool works either by making direct FHIR queries or by connecting to Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs) within the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), ensuring immediate access to essential health data and facilitating timely public health decisions and interventions. Public health staff can interact with the Query Connector manually by entering simple patient details — such as name, date of birth, or medical identifiers — into a web-based search form. The tool also allows for automated queries via integration engines like Rhapsody and Mirth.
Problem Scope
Current public health systems that digest, analyze, and respond to data are siloed. Lacking access to actionable data, our national, as well as state, local, and territorial infrastructure, isn’t pandemic-ready. Our objective is to help the CDC best support PHAs in moving towards a modern public health data infrastructure. See our public website for more details.
The current methods that public health jurisdictions use to collect data from HCOs can be time-consuming and cumbersome, often involving manual interventions like phone calls and faxes. The Query Connector aims to streamline the collection of health data using an intuitive querying process that can leverage QHINs within TEFCA or direct connections, thereby enabling data exchange from multiple HCOs for a variety of public health use cases such as newborn screening or STI case investigation.
DIBBs Query Connector is a sibling project to
- DIBBs ECR Viewer to further help display, access, and interpret public health data;
- PRIME ReportStream, which focuses on improving the delivery of COVID-19 test data to public health departments; and
- PRIME SimpleReport, which provides a better way for organizations and testing facilities to report COVID-19 rapid tests to public health departments.
Documentation
You can find more detailed documentation, guides, and tutorials here:
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For public health case investigators:
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For public health IT staff:
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For developers:
Try it out!
Access to the demo instance of the latest official release DIBBs Query Connector is available at https://demo.queryconnector.dev.
Access to the dev instance of the main branch of DIBBs Query Connector is available at https://queryconnector.dev.
Additional Acknowledgments
The Query Connector uses condition mappings and value sets from the electronic Reporting and Surveillance Distribution (eRSD) from the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), and retrieves value set information from the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) API from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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