Sending data from iot device to fhir

Question

I am implementing a project and there is the need to send data from an IoT device to the Medtech service from fhir. There is already a connection established between the IoT device and the IoT Hub, which the last is receiving the data, now there is a problem in how to establish the connection from the IoT Hub to the Medtech service, the documentation lacks the information needed for device mapping.

Answer 1

Hello @StphaneJoaquimLourenoMonteiro-9691 ,

it seems you want to connect the IoT Hub to a service using the https://fhir.org/ HL7 standard.

The IoT Hub is a cloud gateway that provides secure and individual connections for IoT devices so data can be ingested and routed/distributed to other Azure resources and services (optionally, commands can be sent).

I assume the Medtech service implements this FHIR interface so you need to add logic between the IoT Hub and this interface.

A simple solution is to ingest IoT Hub messages by an Azure Function IoT Hub trigger so you can write the integration logic there.

If you need more context information before you can distribute the messages to the service, you can either use IoT Hub message enrichment and/or Stream Analytics reference data.

The second way to enrich messages with context data will need an extra Stream Analytics job in between the IoT Hub and Azure Function.