Exporting FHIR resources to BigQuery

This page explains how to export FHIR resources to BigQuery for exploration and analysis.

Setting BigQuery permissions

Before exporting FHIR resources to BigQuery, you must grant additional permissions to the Cloud Healthcare Service Agent service account. For more information, see FHIR store BigQuery permissions.

Exporting FHIR resources

The following samples show how to export FHIR resources to a BigQuery table.

gcloud

To export FHIR resources to BigQuery, use the gcloud beta healthcare fhir-stores export bq command. Specify the following information:

The name of the parent dataset
The name of the FHIR store
The name of an existing BigQuery dataset
The name of the project that owns the BigQuery dataset

The following sample shows the gcloud beta healthcare fhir-stores export gcs command.

gcloud beta healthcare fhir-stores export bq FHIR_STORE_ID \
  --dataset=DATASET_ID \
  --location=REGION \
  --bq-dataset=bq://PROJECT_ID.BIGQUERY_DATASET_ID

The command line displays the operation ID and, after the operation completes, done:

Request issued for: [FHIR_STORE_ID]
Waiting for operation [projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/REGION/datasets/DATASET_ID/OPERATION_ID] to complete...done.
name: projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/REGION/datasets/DATASET_ID/fhirStores/FHIR_STORE_ID

To view more details of the operation, run the gcloud beta healthcare operations describe command, providing the OPERATION_ID from the response:

gcloud beta healthcare operations describe OPERATION_ID \
  --dataset=DATASET_ID

The response includes done: true.

done: true
metadata:
'@type': type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.healthcare.v1beta1.OperationMetadata
apiMethodName: google.cloud.healthcare.v1beta1.fhir.FhirService.ExportResources
createTime: '2019-01-01T00:00:00Z'
endTime: '2019-01-01T00:00:00Z'
name: projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/REGION/datasets/DATASET_ID/fhirStores/FHIR_STORE_ID
response:
'@type': type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.healthcare.v1beta1.fhir.rest.ExportResourcesResponse
fhirStore: projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/REGION/datasets/DATASET_ID/fhirStores/FHIR_STORE_ID

API

For more information, see projects.locations.datasets.fhirStores.export.

curl command

To export FHIR resources, make a POST request and supply the following information:

The name of the parent dataset
The name of the FHIR store
The name of an existing BigQuery dataset
The name of the project that owns the BigQuery dataset
An access token

The operation outputs one BigQuery table for each resource type in the FHIR store.

The following sample shows a POST request using curl.

curl -X POST \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer "$(gcloud auth print-access-token) \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8" \
    --data "{
      'bigqueryDestination': {
        'datasetUri': 'bq://PROJECT_ID.DATASET_ID'
      }
    }" "https://healthcare.googleapis.com/v1beta1/projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/REGION/datasets/DATASET_ID/fhirStores/FHIR_STORE_ID:export"

If the request is successful, the server returns a 200 OK HTTP status code and the response in JSON format:

200 OK

{
  "name": "projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/REGION/datasets/DATASET_ID/operations/OPERATION_ID"
}

The response contains an operation name. To track the status of the operation, you can use the Operation get method:

curl -X GET \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer "$(gcloud auth print-access-token) \
    "https://healthcare.googleapis.com/v1beta1/projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/REGION/datasets/DATASET_ID/operations/OPERATION_ID"

If the request is successful, the server returns a 200 OK HTTP status code and a response with the status of the operation in JSON format:

200 OK

{
  "name": "projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/REGION/datasets/DATASET_ID/operations/OPERATION_ID",
  "metadata": {
    "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.healthcare.v1beta1.OperationMetadata",
    "apiMethodName": "google.cloud.healthcare.v1beta1.fhir.FhirService.ExportResources",
    "createTime": "2018-01-01T00:00:00Z",
    "endTime": "2018-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  },
  "done": true,
  "response": {
    "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.healthcare.v1beta1.fhir.rest.ExportResourcesResponse",
    "name": "projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/REGION/datasets/DATASET_ID/fhirStores/FHIR_STORE_ID",
    "resourceCount": "RESOURCE_COUNT"
  }
}

PowerShell

To export FHIR resources, make a POST request and supply the following information:

The name of the parent dataset
The name of the FHIR store
The name of an existing BigQuery dataset
The name of the project that owns the BigQuery dataset
An access token

The operation outputs one BigQuery table for each resource type in the FHIR store.

The following sample shows a POST request using Windows PowerShell.

$cred = gcloud auth print-access-token
$headers = @{ Authorization = "Bearer $cred" }

Invoke-WebRequest `
  -Method Post `
  -Headers $headers `
  -ContentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8" `
  -Body "{
    'bigqueryDestination': {
      'datasetUri': 'bq://PROJECT_ID.DATASET_ID'
    }
  }" `
  -Uri "https://healthcare.googleapis.com/v1beta1/projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/REGION/datasets/DATASET_ID/fhirStores/FHIR_STORE_ID:export" | Select-Object -Expand Content

If the request is successful, the server returns a 200 OK HTTP status code and the response in JSON format:

200 OK

{
  "name": "projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/REGION/datasets/DATASET_ID/operations/OPERATION_ID"
}

The response contains an operation name. To track the status of the operation, you can use the Operation get method:

$cred = gcloud auth print-access-token
$headers = @{ Authorization = "Bearer $cred" }

Invoke-WebRequest `
  -Method Get `
  -Headers $headers `
  -Uri "https://healthcare.googleapis.com/v1beta1/projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/REGION/datasets/DATASET_ID/operations/OPERATION_ID" | Select-Object -Expand Content

If the request is successful, the server returns a 200 OK HTTP status code and a response with the status of the operation in JSON format:

200 OK

{
  "name": "projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/REGION/datasets/DATASET_ID/operations/OPERATION_ID",
  "metadata": {
    "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.healthcare.v1beta1.OperationMetadata",
    "apiMethodName": "google.cloud.healthcare.v1beta1.fhir.FhirService.ExportResources",
    "createTime": "2018-01-01T00:00:00Z",
    "endTime": "2018-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  },
  "done": true,
  "response": {
    "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.cloud.healthcare.v1beta1.fhir.rest.ExportResourcesResponse",
    "name": "projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/REGION/datasets/DATASET_ID/fhirStores/FHIR_STORE_ID",
    "resourceCount": "RESOURCE_COUNT"
  }
}

Troubleshooting FHIR export requests

If errors occur during a FHIR export request, the errors are logged to Stackdriver Logging. For more information, see Viewing error logs in Stackdriver Logging.

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Last updated October 7, 2019.