11 FHIR Operations

This section gives an overview of some of the features of HDR FHIR, and it shows you how to manage and configure it for a few basic functionalities.

• FHIR CRUD (Create/Read/Update/Delete) operations
  This section describes how to use the HDR FHIR Endpoint to perform basic CRUD (Create/Read/Update/Delete) operations.
• FHIR Search operations
  This section describes the FHIR Search operations.
• FHIR Bundle transactions and batches
  Oracle FHIR includes a mechanism that can be used by a client to send multiple interactions to a server for processing. This mechanism uses the FHIR bundle resource as the transport, with a collection of one or more interactions grouped inside the bundle.
• Search parameters
  Search parameters are named paths within resources that are indexed by the system so that they can be used to find resources that match a given criteria.
• Search parameter features
  This section describes optional features that you can enable or disable for optimizing how searching works on Oracle HDR-FHIR server.
• Searching for data
  This section contains information about methods for searching for data in Oracle HDR FHIR.
• Creating data
  This section describes creating data in Oracle HDR FHIR repository.
• Reading data
  This section describes methods for reading data from the Oracle HDR FHIR Repository.
• Updating data
  This section describes information about methods for updating data in the HDR FHIR Repository.
• Deleting data
  The FHIR delete operation performs a "logical" delete. This means that data is not physically removed from the database.
• Binary Access Operations
  In many cases, resources such as DocumentReference are used to store large files such as scanned PDFs and images. These resources use the Attachment datatype, which ultimately stores a content type and a base 64 encoded representation of the binary content.