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  1. FHIR Specification Feedback
  2. FHIR-42650

NDH Associated Servers extension appears unnecessary

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    • Icon: Change Request Change Request
    • Resolution: Persuasive with Modification
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    • National Directory of Healthcare Providers and Services (NDH) (FHIR)
    • 1.0.0-ballot
    • Patient Administration
    • Exchange Artifacts
    • 27.115.1
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      Agree to provide an example of an associated server as follows:

       

      If your system features two types of endpoints: a standard endpoint and a proxy endpoint associated with the server. For example, the proxy endpoint can be configured to interface with AEGIS software, allowing the software to record transactions and ensure compliance with pertinent standards or regulations. Implementing such a configuration in a production environment would offer the flexibility to switch between standard and proxy modes (associated server) as necessary. Consequently, it is essential to have both standard and proxy endpoints readily available for seamless transitions as required.

      Add value to the value set to indicate a testing-proxy

       

      Add guidance on the use of this extension versus well-known endpoint or OrganizationAffiliation for HIE related services.

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      Agree to provide an example of an associated server as follows:   If your system features two types of endpoints: a standard endpoint and a proxy endpoint associated with the server. For example, the proxy endpoint can be configured to interface with AEGIS software, allowing the software to record transactions and ensure compliance with pertinent standards or regulations. Implementing such a configuration in a production environment would offer the flexibility to switch between standard and proxy modes (associated server) as necessary. Consequently, it is essential to have both standard and proxy endpoints readily available for seamless transitions as required. Add value to the value set to indicate a testing-proxy   Add guidance on the use of this extension versus well-known endpoint or OrganizationAffiliation for HIE related services.
    • Bob Dieterle / Ming Dunajick: 5-0-1
    • Clarification
    • Non-substantive

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      There is next to no documentation in the IG for this extension, making it very difficult to evaluate its efficacy and appropriate usage. 

      The NDH Associated Servers extension appears redundant, and changes the entire point of the Endpoint resource, which is characterizing the capabilities of a single URL. All of the types of servers in the Associated Servers Type Value Set should be represented by their own Endpoint resource, and any connection they have to each other should be represented by the relationships between these Endpoints and Organizations, OrganizationAffiliations, etc.

      If there were a use case defined, we might be able to see if there's something that couldn't be represented in the normal way, and even if that were true we'd need to explain how it all fits together: whether those servers are also documented as their own Endpoints or not, etc.

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            jlamy Joseph M. Lamy
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