Show HN: MLonFHIR: Fusing Sklearn with the HL7 FHIR Standard (github.com)

13 points by cbock90 6y ago ↗ HN

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This is an excellent idea. From unfortunate experience, I know this will struggle to be real in a hospital that's suffering with Epic. The company is strictly against open standards (https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/01/22/epic-ceo-sends-letter-ur...). The Epic scam continues unabated, but I wonder if there's a way to add more explicit rejections (or constraints) for Epic environments?

coolyd 6y ago ↗

They do support a fair number of FHIR resources (as required by meaningful use stage 3): https://open.epic.com/Interface/FHIR and even more within their curated marketplace: https://apporchard.epic.com/

ebg13 6y ago ↗

"the HL7 FHIR standard"

Which one? R4? STU3? -> http://hl7.org/fhir/directory.html

AFAIK, the different versions aren't compatible with each other. How will that affect this library?

cbock90 6y ago ↗

Good point. As of now, we only tested it with STU3. I think something we definitely miss is a test module that allows for version compatibility checks.

ebg13 6y ago ↗

I'll be watching this project. I hope you can keep advancing it. Maybe put a note on the README about version compatibility and a call to action for testing new versions as they come out?