FAST National Directory Reference Implementation

This is a FHIR server reference implementation of the FAST National Directory of Healthcare Providers & Services (NDH) IG for the current STU2 sequence. It is built on the HAPI FHIR JPA Starter Project project and more detailed configuration information can be found in that repository.

A hosted instance of this server is available in the HL7 Foundry with its FHIR endpoint at: https://ndh-server.fast.hl7.org/fhir

Prerequisites

Building and running the server locally requires either Docker or

• Java 17+
• Maven

Building and Running the Server

There are multiple ways to build and run the server locally. By default, the server's base FHIR endpoint will be available at http://localhost:8080/fhir

Using Maven

mvn spring-boot:run

or

mvn -Pjetty spring-boot:run

Using Docker

docker compose up -d

Postman Collection

A basic Postman collection that demonstrates requesting and querying for a bulk export, creating a new Practitioner, subscribing to Practitioner changes, and updating it to trigger the subscription is available in the ndh.postman_collection.json file.