HAPI FHIR and Smile CDR Xenon May Post Release Webinar

Thank you for joining us for our first-ever in-person quarterly release, live at Smile’s Intelligent Health Data Symposium. Here is a quick overview of some of the great things included in Smile CDR 2023.05.R01 and HAPI FHIR 6.6.0 (Code Name: Xenon). If you couldn't join us, or just want to watch the webinar again, you're in luck. You can watch it below.

SMILE CDR 2023.05.R01

• FHIR^® R5 is here! Both HAPI FHIR and Smile CDR now contain the final R5 resource definitions for the latest FHIR release. Support for the new R5 Subscription model is included, and a new R5 storage module type has been added in Smile CDR.

• Custom resource types (i.e. resources not defined in the base FHIR specification) are now supported.

• FHIR Gateway routes now support automatic retry on failures with several available automatic backoff modes.

• MegaScale-enabled repositories now support resource references that cross MegaScale database boundaries, and the $expunge operation has now been enabled on MegaScale repositories.

• CDS Hooks services now support CDS Hooks Extensions.

• The MDM Module now maintains a history of changes to MDM links over time. A new operation called $mdm-link-history has been added to view this history.

• A new user interface module named MDM UI has been added. This new experimental module provides a web based UI for administering links within the MDM module.

• All HAPI FHIR 6.6.0 changes listed below are included in Smile CDR 2023.05.R01.

HAPI FHIR 6.6.0

• The Batch2 Framework (used for jobs such as Resource Reindexing and Bulk Export/Import has been significantly streamlined in order to avoid potential duplicate records, orphaned jobs, and incomplete records when running under heavy load.

• Bulk Export/Import Operations have been enhanced to be fully partition aware.

• Two new instance-level operations for resource reindexing and reindex simulation have been added. These operations also provide a view of the generated database indexes, which can help with troubleshooting custom search parameters.

• Sorting on chained search expressions is now supported, and can optionally leverage Uplifted Refchains for better performance as well.

• Sorting on near-coordinate search parameters is now supported, in order to provide the closest matches first.

CLINICAL REASONING

• Upgraded to the latest CQL engine featuring enhanced compile-time function overload resolution, improving performance up to 10x for CQL with repeated function invocations. These improvements apply to all CR use cases (dQM, DTR, CDS).

• Added support for the $care-gaps operation defined by the DaVinci Data Exchange for Quality Measures (DEQM) IG

• Added support for the DaVinci Structured Data Capture (SDC) Questionnaire $extract operation

• MeasureReports can now be automatically converted to CMS QPP format for submission using a new operation called $qpp-build.

APPSPHERE 

• Register and manage SMART apps for population health analytics that use bulk FHIR export server-to-server.

PAYER-TO-PAYER DATA EXCHANGE SOLUTION

• Smart on FHIR compliance: support for audience parameter added for OIDC flow with source payers.

• Insight into Data Transfer Requests: Refresh option added in transfer table for improved user experience, allowing members to get the up-to-date status of their data transfer requests.

PAYER MEMBER PORTAL 

• Added MDM support within PMP. Queries for a given member will now include all records that have been linked through MDM. 

For more information about the Smile Modules, features and enhancements, check out our world-class docs site.

We look forward to having you join us at Smile’s next release in August as we work towards our shared vision for #BetterGlobalHealth.