Hey there, I have been playing around medplum for a couple of weeks now. I used UploadFIG (awesome tool btw https://github.com/brianpos/UploadFIG) to apply the au base implementation group which worked fine as i tested on both the Microsoft and HAPI FHIR servers. There was some errors with validation on the medplum version which i couldn't figure out when i went to load the example patients from the AU base IG. I couldn't get the patient to load using the "AU Base profile" Unfortunately I don't have that computer with me at the moment to give more details on the errors it was producing. I would like to know if its possible to use a different FHIR server with medplum, i can see how to instantiate the medplum client passing a different fhirurl through. However i would like to use the Microsoft server which requires authorisation. Is this possible? How would i go about implementing this ?

Hi @donny7689 , are you asking about using a different FHIR server using the

MedplumClient

Typescript class?

I can see how to do that however I don’t want to put the client_id and secret into the application as this will be published with the WebApp. This would be a pretty big security hole as anyone could get direct access to the underlying FHIR server

I am also interested in this. Personally would like to leverage Medplum for auth and FHIR resource management on the client side but use an external FHIR server. Still early in my research with integrating Medplum.

Hi @vijayakello_58330 @donny7689 - I'd like to learn a bit more on your use cases. It sounds like you would like to store FHIR data in an external server, but use Medplum as an Auth Provider? Essentially, forwarding the FHIR API calls through Medplum to the external server. Do I have that right?

that's correct from my end, can't speak for @donny .. here is a super rough sketch i am still figuring out tbh

Hi @vijayakello_58330 , thanks for the diagram. In this case, I don't think you really want to use Medplum as a proxy, as @donny7689 was describing. Rather, you would want to use Medplum as your "System of Record" for application, includig your reports, patient registry, and population health metrics. The reason being: * The EPIC FHIR APIs typically have limited ability to write data back into the system. Typically resources like

Patient

are read only * You are aggregating information from multiple systems. Therefore, you'll need a source of truth

Thanks so much. I’ll dive more into that direction

@vijayakello_58330 I'd encourage you to reach out to us at hello@medplum.com. We help you think through your estimated usage and what pricing might look like to help you make the right decision for company. We work with a ton of early-stage startups, and we the reason we offer a tiered pricing model to scales with your traction.

Thanks @rahul1 - i have a workaround for my first pilot, but as I get to my next accounts I'll need to move in this direction.. will follow up