HL7 Health Services Platform (HSP) Marketplace, Release 1

DESCRIPTION

This is a vendor-agnostic Health Services Platform (HSP) Marketplace specification for publication, curation, discovery, and distribution of interoperable service implementations. This specification is completely agnostic to programming language/frameworks, database, and I/O technologies, as well as account for SMART-on-FHIR client applications that require on-site deployment. Existing work by HSPC and ASU was brought to HL7 to formalize and steward the specification itself. Included are:
1. REST JSON API (Representation State Transfer JavaScript Object Notation Application Programming Interface) and platform-independent model (PIM) of specified objects, fully compatible with the OAuth 2-based nature of SMART-on-FHIR.
2. Exemplar HSPC reference implementation of the Marketplace Service and Web UI/Client. The reference implementation will be supporting material, not directly part of the balloted standard.
3. Reference database schema for relational database management systems.

ALTERNATIVE NAMES

HL7 Health Services Platform (HSP) Marketplace, Release 1 may also go by the following names or acronyms:

BENEFITS

•  Enables exchanging backend service implementations in a vendor-neutral manner, which is necessary to exchange executable artifacts interoperably to plug-n-play across SOAs
•  In broad strokes, it is the server-side equivalent of SMART-on-FHIR (SoF), as SoF only concerns client-side app integration and also does not address client-side deployment requirements of web applications, not uncommon in health IT (HIT) enterprise. The design principles are inspired by the business processes that made other computing ecosystems, such as the (all proprietary) Apple, Google, and Amazon app stores successful.
• Allows:
  •  HIT orgs to search for new services across *all* participating vendors, and deploy them in a 100% automated fashion into on-prem, cloud, and/or hybrid infrastructure, using 1 or more Marketplace instances in any public/private combination.
  •  Developers to directly submit new (and update existing) service builds.
  •  Marketplace operators to curate, review, and publish vendor submissions.
  •  Compliance validators to automate certification activities.
  •  All parties to optionally authenticate with existing SSO credentials needed for SoF apps/architectures.

IMPLEMENTATIONS/CASE STUDIES

• HSPC holds a reference implementation of both the Service specification and optional front end client application.

RELATED DOCUMENTS

HL7 Health Services Platform (HSP) Marketplace, Release 1

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BALLOT TYPES

• Informative

STATUS DATE

2019-07-02

RESPONSIBLE WORK GROUPS

PRODUCT TYPES

• Services
• Transport(ebxml, cd, mllp)

STAKEHOLDERS

• Clinical Decision Support Systems Vendors
• EHR, PHR Vendors
• Health Care IT Vendors
• Standards Development Organizations (SDOs)

CURRENT STATE

• Stable

REALM

• Universal