Subscriptions

FHIR Subscriptions Subscriptions for real-time notifications and event-driven workflows.

Subscriptions enable real-time notifications and updates between servers and clients. This mechanism allows to respond dynamically to changes in patient data or resource states.

By leveraging the subscriptions, developers can specify notification criteria, define delivery channels, and monitor specific events or changes in healthcare data. This push-based approach minimizes the need for constant polling, optimizing resource utilization and improving the timeliness of information dissemination.

Aidbox provides several implementations of subscriptions. For enhanced capabilities and ongoing support, please use Aidbox topic-based subscriptions. This newer implementation offers improved performance, flexibility, and will continue to be developed to meet future needs.

ImplementationDelivery guaranteeChannelsStatus
FHIR Topic-Based SubscriptionsAt least onceREST-hookMaintained
Aidbox topic-based subscriptions
  • At most once
  • At least once
  • Kafka
  • Webhook
  • GCP Pub/Sub
  • NATS
  • AMQP message broker
*additonal channels will be implemented by request		Maintained
Aidbox SubSubscriptionsAt most onceWebhookDeprecated
FHIR topic-based subscriptions (Zen)At least onceWebhookDeprecated

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