Connect AWS-FHIR-Mirth with MongoDB
It is an essential feature to connect Mirth to any flat-file Database. The reason for the shift is because in future we are expecting data in the form of an non-aligned structure like an API call.
Most of the business people now are using Healthcare market just to increase the care co-ordination they offer.To achieve this business need, they are targeting people with mobile applications. Looking at from this perspective, the front end of this mobile application depends on latest technologies like ReactJS or AngularJS. These technologies primarily focus on efficiently binding the received data. This data is usually in a JSON format.
From the interoperability perspective we can see the need for inserting incoming data to parse and provide them in the flat-file MongoDB.
I basically use Java to try out this and to implement them in Mirth.
Pre-requisite:
MongoDB – connectivity Jar : please download the jar file from here Please Download 2.11.1/ I was using this version as it a stable release. Download mongo-java-driver-2.11.1.jar This contains only the connectivity Jar to MongoDB
Install MongoDB : Make sure MongoDB is available in your system, if you are using Windows system then make sure you navigate to the MongoDB folder and open to run Mongod.exe this will make the mongo server to listen to the port 27017 by default. Then open run Mongo.exe this will open the MongoShell console.
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MongoDB :
—————– Create Database ————–
show dbs;
use FHIRtest
type : db;
you should get : FHIRtest
—————– Create Collection ————–
db.createCollection(“SampleFHIR”);
type : show collections;
you should get : SampleFHIR
—————– Insert Data ——————–
db.SampleFHIR.insertOne({“Data”:”PatientInfo- GETtest”});
type : db.SampleFHIR.find();
you should get : { “_id” : ObjectId(“57c45d8403114b848da5b516”), “Data” : “PatientInfo- GETtest”}
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Now we have a Database ready with a collection in it, also it has one collection.
We will write a JAVA code, that will primarily read the data from the MongoDB and display it to check for the connection.
package com.fhir;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;import com.mongodb.BasicDBObject;
import com.mongodb.DB;
import com.mongodb.DBCollection;
import com.mongodb.DBCursor;
import com.mongodb.DBObject;
import com.mongodb.MongoClient;public class FhirConnector {
public static void main(String[] args){
try{
//Connect to MongoDB client
MongoClient mongoClient = new MongoClient(“localhost”, 27017);
DB db = mongoClient.getDB(“FHIRtest”);
System.out.println(“- Database: ” + db);
//get collection data
DBCollection col = db.getCollection(“SampleFHIR”);
System.out.println(“- Collections: ” + col);
//Print Data in MongoDB
DBCursor cursor = col.find();
while(cursor.hasNext()) {
System.out.println(cursor.next());
}}catch(IOException e){
throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
}
}
Output :
You should be getting an output like this:
Note: I have used a different collection name in my code, so the collection name is different in the console screen.
Now Let’s try to insert some data inside the same collection and then try to read the output. My making a a new code change in the above existing code.
package com.fhir;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;import com.mongodb.BasicDBObject;
import com.mongodb.DB;
import com.mongodb.DBCollection;
import com.mongodb.DBCursor;
import com.mongodb.DBObject;
import com.mongodb.MongoClient;public class FhirConnector {
public static void main(String[] args){
try{
MongoClient mongoClient = new MongoClient(“localhost”, 27017);
DB db = mongoClient.getDB(“FHIRtest”);
System.out.println(“- Database: ” + db);DBCollection col = db.getCollection(“FHIRdump”);
System.out.println(“- Collections: ” + col);//Insert data into MongoDB
BasicDBObject document = new BasicDBObject();
document.put(“database”, “FHIRtest”);
document.put(“collection_mark”, “insertFHIR”);BasicDBObject documentDetail = new BasicDBObject();
documentDetail.put(“records”, 99);
documentDetail.put(“index”, “vps_index1”);document.put(“detail”, documentDetail);
col.insert(document);
System.out.println(“Inserted into DB”);//Print Data in MongoDB
DBCursor cursor = col.find();
while(cursor.hasNext()) {
System.out.println(cursor.next());
}}catch(IOException e){
throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
}
}
Output :
You should be getting a console output like this:
In the Mongo shell you will get an output like this:
Now we have written the Java code that will insert a data into MongoDB. Next step we will incorporate this into Mirth.To achieve this in Mirth, deploy the MongoDB connectivity Jar in Mirth custom-lib folder. and If you have the Mirth running, restart the service.
Channel :
Source : set the source as FHIR listener set the port of your convenience
Source Transformer :
We will write a code here, that will fetch the incoming JSON data . We will send the data to Mirth via POSTMAN chrome application tool.
var jsonData = connectorMessage.getRawData();
var parseData = JSON.parse(jsonData)
// parsed Data contents
var status = parseData.text.status;
var resource= parseData.resourceType;
var identity = parseData.id;
var sex = parseData.gender;
var dob = parseData.birthDate;
logger.info(status+” “+resource+” “+identity+” “+sex+” “+dob);
channelMap.put(‘statusDetail’,status);
channelMap.put(‘resource’,resource);
channelMap.put(‘id’,identity);
channelMap.put(‘gender’,sex);
channelMap.put(‘DateofBirth’,dob);
Destination:
Now set the destination as Javasscript writer. and type the below code in the destination
try{
var mongoClient = new Packages.com.mongodb.MongoClient(“localhost”,27017);
var db = mongoClient.getDB(“FHIRtest”);
var col = db.getCollection(“SampleFHIR”);// Insert data into MongoDB
var document = new Packages.com.mongodb.BasicDBObject();
document.put(“Status”,$(‘statusDetail’));
document.put(“resourceType”, $(‘resource’));var documentDetail = new Packages.com.mongodb.BasicDBObject();
documentDetail.put(“identity”, $(‘id’));
documentDetail.put(“sex”, $(‘gender’));
documentDetail.put(“dob”, $(‘DateofBirth’));document.put(“detail”, documentDetail);
col.insert(document);
//get Data from MongoDB
var cursor = col.find();
while(cursor.hasNext())
{
logger.info(“Inside Collection : “+cursor.next());
}}catch(e){}
You can now deploy the channel, and pass the below JSON as the message in POSTMAN
{
“text”: {
“status”: “generated”
},
“resourceType”: “”,
“id”: “210321-120321”,
“gender”: “male”,
“birthDate”: “1994-01-04”
}
You will now get the following output in the Mongo Shell.
You can see that data is a simple JSON. But you can see all the packages, databases are named as FHIR, the reason behind this is, It is essential to put json to a flat-file format in a enhanced way. FHIR being transferred as both XML as well as JSON it is essential to know how well we handle this and store in a flatfile format.
In future any server side based codes can read this FHIR resources as it is from MongoDB put it as an API, from where all the mobile technologies like AngularJS, ReactJS will parse the incoming API and publish it in a wonderful user viewing manner.
— Hope this is useful.