Search FHIR resources

Use a GET request or a POST request to search FHIR resources.

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Code sample

Go

Before trying this sample, follow the Go setup instructions in the Cloud Healthcare API quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Cloud Healthcare API Go API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Healthcare API, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"io/ioutil"
	"log"
	"net/http"

	"golang.org/x/oauth2/google"
)

// searchFhirResourcesGet uses a GET request to search for FHIR resources in a given FHIR store.
func searchFHIRResourcesGet(w io.Writer, projectID, location, datasetID, fhirStoreID, resourceType string) error {
	ctx := context.Background()

	// The Healthcare API endpoint, API version, and request path.
	name := fmt.Sprintf("https://healthcare.googleapis.com/v1/projects/%s/locations/%s/datasets/%s/fhirStores/%s/fhir/%s", projectID, location, datasetID, fhirStoreID, resourceType)

	// DefaultClient returns an HTTP Client that uses the
	// DefaultTokenSource (Application Default Credentials)
	// to obtain authentication credentials.
	client, err := google.DefaultClient(ctx, "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform")
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}

	// NewRequest takes an io.Reader as its third argument,
	// but the GET request to search for FHIR resources does
	// not pass any data in its body.
	req, err := http.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, name, nil)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("NewRequest: %w", err)
	}

	// To set additional parameters for search filtering, append the
	// search terms as query parameters, then assign the encoded
	// query string to the request.
	// For example, to search for a Patient with the family name "Smith",
	// specify a Patient resourceType and then set the following:
	// q := req.URL.Query()
	// q.Add("family:exact", "Smith")
	// req.URL.RawQuery = q.Encode()

	resp, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("Do: %w", err)
	}

	defer resp.Body.Close()

	respBytes, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("could not read response: %w", err)
	}

	if resp.StatusCode > 299 {
		return fmt.Errorf("search: status %d %s: %s", resp.StatusCode, resp.Status, respBytes)
	}

	fmt.Fprintf(w, "%s", respBytes)

	return nil
}

Java

Before trying this sample, follow the Java setup instructions in the Cloud Healthcare API quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Cloud Healthcare API Java API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Healthcare API, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

import com.google.api.client.http.HttpRequestInitializer;
import com.google.api.client.http.javanet.NetHttpTransport;
import com.google.api.client.json.JsonFactory;
import com.google.api.client.json.gson.GsonFactory;
import com.google.api.services.healthcare.v1.CloudHealthcare;
import com.google.api.services.healthcare.v1.CloudHealthcareScopes;
import com.google.auth.http.HttpCredentialsAdapter;
import com.google.auth.oauth2.GoogleCredentials;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URISyntaxException;
import java.util.Collections;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.HttpStatus;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpUriRequest;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.RequestBuilder;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;

public class FhirResourceSearchGet {
  private static final String FHIR_NAME =
      "projects/%s/locations/%s/datasets/%s/fhirStores/%s/fhir/%s";
  // The endpoint URL for the Healthcare API. Required for HttpClient.
  private static final String API_ENDPOINT = "https://healthcare.googleapis.com";
  private static final JsonFactory JSON_FACTORY = new GsonFactory();
  private static final NetHttpTransport HTTP_TRANSPORT = new NetHttpTransport();

  public static void fhirResourceSearchGet(String resourceName)
      throws IOException, URISyntaxException {
    // String resourceName =
    //    String.format(
    //        FHIR_NAME, "project-id", "region-id", "dataset-id", "fhir-store-id");
    // String resourceType = "Patient";

    // Instantiate the client, which will be used to interact with the service.
    HttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.createDefault();
    String uri = String.format("%s/v1/%s", API_ENDPOINT, resourceName);
    URIBuilder uriBuilder = new URIBuilder(uri).setParameter("access_token", getAccessToken());
    // To set additional parameters for search filtering, add them to the URIBuilder. For
    // example, to search for a Patient with the family name "Smith", specify the following:
    // uriBuilder.setParameter("family:exact", "Smith");

    HttpUriRequest request =
        RequestBuilder.get()
            .setUri(uriBuilder.build())
            .build();

    // Execute the request and process the results.
    HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(request);
    HttpEntity responseEntity = response.getEntity();
    if (response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() != HttpStatus.SC_OK) {
      System.err.print(
          String.format(
              "Exception searching GET FHIR resources: %s\n", response.getStatusLine().toString()));
      responseEntity.writeTo(System.err);
      throw new RuntimeException();
    }
    System.out.println("FHIR resource GET search results: ");
    responseEntity.writeTo(System.out);
  }

  private static CloudHealthcare createClient() throws IOException {
    // Use Application Default Credentials (ADC) to authenticate the requests
    // For more information see https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/production
    GoogleCredentials credential =
        GoogleCredentials.getApplicationDefault()
            .createScoped(Collections.singleton(CloudHealthcareScopes.CLOUD_PLATFORM));
    // Create a HttpRequestInitializer, which will provide a baseline configuration to all requests.
    HttpRequestInitializer requestInitializer =
        request -> {
          new HttpCredentialsAdapter(credential).initialize(request);
          request.setConnectTimeout(60000); // 1 minute connect timeout
          request.setReadTimeout(60000); // 1 minute read timeout
        };
    // Build the client for interacting with the service.
    return new CloudHealthcare.Builder(HTTP_TRANSPORT, JSON_FACTORY, requestInitializer)
        .setApplicationName("your-application-name")
        .build();
  }

  private static String getAccessToken() throws IOException {
    GoogleCredentials credential =
        GoogleCredentials.getApplicationDefault()
            .createScoped(Collections.singleton(CloudHealthcareScopes.CLOUD_PLATFORM));

    return credential.refreshAccessToken().getTokenValue();
  }
}

Node.js

Before trying this sample, follow the Node.js setup instructions in the Cloud Healthcare API quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Cloud Healthcare API Node.js API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Healthcare API, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

// Import google-auth-library for authentication.
const {GoogleAuth} = require('google-auth-library');

const searchFhirResourcesGet = async () => {
  const auth = new GoogleAuth({
    scopes: 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform',
  });
  // TODO(developer): uncomment these lines before running the sample
  // const cloudRegion = 'us-central1';
  // const projectId = 'adjective-noun-123';
  // const datasetId = 'my-dataset';
  // const fhirStoreId = 'my-fhir-store';
  // const resourceType = 'Patient';
  const url = `https://healthcare.googleapis.com/v1/projects/${projectId}/locations/${cloudRegion}/datasets/${datasetId}/fhirStores/${fhirStoreId}/fhir/${resourceType}`;

  const params = {};
  // Specify search filters in a params object. For example, to filter on a
  // Patient with the last name "Smith", set resourceType to "Patient" and
  // specify the following params:
  // params = {'family:exact' : 'Smith'};
  const client = await auth.getClient();
  const response = await client.request({url, method: 'GET', params});
  const resources = response.data.entry;
  console.log(`Resources found: ${resources.length}`);
  console.log(JSON.stringify(resources, null, 2));
};

searchFhirResourcesGet();

Python

Before trying this sample, follow the Python setup instructions in the Cloud Healthcare API quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Cloud Healthcare API Python API reference documentation.

To authenticate to Cloud Healthcare API, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

def search_resources_get(
    project_id,
    location,
    dataset_id,
    fhir_store_id,
    resource_type,
):
    """
    Uses the searchResources GET method to search for resources in the given FHIR store.

    See https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/python-docs-samples/tree/main/healthcare/api-client/v1/fhir
    before running the sample."""
    # Imports Python's built-in "os" module
    import os

    # Imports the google.auth.transport.requests transport
    from google.auth.transport import requests

    # Imports a module to allow authentication using a service account
    from google.oauth2 import service_account

    # Gets credentials from the environment.
    credentials = service_account.Credentials.from_service_account_file(
        os.environ["GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS"]
    )
    scoped_credentials = credentials.with_scopes(
        ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform"]
    )
    # Creates a requests Session object with the credentials.
    session = requests.AuthorizedSession(scoped_credentials)

    # URL to the Cloud Healthcare API endpoint and version
    base_url = "https://healthcare.googleapis.com/v1"

    # TODO(developer): Uncomment these lines and replace with your values.
    # project_id = 'my-project'  # replace with your GCP project ID
    # location = 'us-central1'  # replace with the parent dataset's location
    # dataset_id = 'my-dataset'  # replace with the parent dataset's ID
    # fhir_store_id = 'my-fhir-store' # replace with the FHIR store ID
    # resource_type = 'Patient'  # replace with the FHIR resource type
    url = f"{base_url}/projects/{project_id}/locations/{location}"

    resource_path = "{}/datasets/{}/fhirStores/{}/fhir/{}".format(
        url, dataset_id, fhir_store_id, resource_type
    )

    response = session.get(resource_path)
    response.raise_for_status()

    resources = response.json()

    print(
        "Using GET request, found a total of {} {} resources:".format(
            resources["total"], resource_type
        )
    )
    print(json.dumps(resources, indent=2))

    return resources

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