How do we Bulk upload/ingest resources into Azure API for FHIR Server

Question

We are currently using ADF to load historical data into Azure API for FHIR, but we only have the ability to do batch bundles. Are there other bulk loading options for Azure API for FHIR?

Here is our email to sowmyans@microsoft.com, but haven't heard back.

Sowmyan,

Hi. What are our options for bulk upload/import to improve performance? Our current setup has us at < 120,000 patients per hour. I know the managed API does not currently support transaction bundles. Is pushing batch bundles to the API our only option?

Thank you,

Answer 1

@Ken Miller Transaction bundles are supported if you use SQL as the backend in Open Source FHIR Server.
If you are using Cosmos DB as backend, only batch bundles are supported right now.

If you need to check the outcome of the batch, you could look at the tests in our repo here

Also, please check if FhirLoader is an option for you.
As per the contributor of the repo, you should be able to load 700k resources in 30 minutes at 10000RU's

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