Building Apps on Healthcare Data Solutions for Power Platform
Healthcare Data Solutions for Power Platform is a cloud solution helping customers and partners build healthcare applications using low code/no code tools and a FHIR-aligned data model. The solution also provides template applications, a Dataverse Healthcare API, Virtual Health Data Tables, and a FHIRlink Power Platform connector. The solution is free for Power Platform customers and can be customized and extended using Dataverse tools and custom code.FHIRlink connector and Epic on FHIR for Power Platform development
The FHIRlink connector for Power Platform enables direct access to FHIR based endpoints. In this post, we look at a working sample application that connects Dataverse with Epic on EPIC® on FHIR® and Azure OpenAI to provide patient details and AI support for clinical users.
FHIRlink Power Platform connector Public Preview Release
Microsoft FHIRlink creates a direct connection between healthcare apps built on Microsoft Azure services and FHIR’s servers, bypassing the need to duplicate data from Microsoft Dataverse. FHIRlink reduces the complexity and cost of building low code/no code applications on Power Platform and Azure because developers can build their apps directly against the FHIR services rather than having to duplicate data between systems. Connect Power Automate Flows, Power Platform Canvas Apps, and Azure Logic Apps to various FHIR services and perform create, retrieve, update and delete operations directly on FHIR resources.Virtual Health Data Tables Create Update and Delete Support
Health organizations are considering low-code development to improve productivity, gain faster time-to-market, experiment more easily, and overall, be more agile when responding to market changes. A key blocker has been the inability to pull health data from multiple sources and manage it in a secure and compliant way. Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare includes configurable solutions to exchange data between Dataverse and external systems using the FHIR standard. Microsoft's Virtual Health Data Tables provides the ability to connect directly to Azure Health Data Services FHIR service from within Dataverse. As part of the latest release, Virtual Health Data Tables has been updated to include support for the create, update, and delete FHIR operations.
FHIRlink Power Platform connector General Availability
Microsoft FHIRlink creates a direct connection between healthcare apps built on Microsoft Azure services and FHIR’s servers, bypassing the need to duplicate data from Microsoft Dataverse. FHIRlink reduces the complexity and cost of building low code/no code applications on Power Platform and Azure because developers can build their apps directly against the FHIR services rather than having to duplicate data between systems. Connect Power Automate Flows, Power Platform Canvas Apps, and Azure Logic Apps to various FHIR services and perform create, retrieve, update and delete operations directly on FHIR resources.Azure OpenAI Assistance for Power Virtual Agents
Recently Greg Beaumont posted to the HLS Tech Community blog Azure OpenAI ChatGPT Solves Cryptic Error Codes from Power BI, SQL Server, Power Apps, and more!. He highlighted in the post (and video) some advantageous ways to leverage Azure OpenAI’s Chat GPT playground to respond to odd error codes. He asked at the end of the post about enabling this through a Power App, bot, or something else. Challenge accepted!
CI/CD for Power Platform using GitHub Actions
Let’s discuss using GitHub actions to provide continuous integration and deployment capabilities for Power Platform solutions. This article will expand on why and several considerations to keep in mind but you can find the how in this tutorial which this post will reference.
