Hi Medplum team! I have a question for you 🙂 I've been extending our lang2FHIR API (takes unstructured text as an input and produces valid FHIR output) to support pdfs as an input. I'm planning to make and record a demo over the next week to share this and my initial thinking was to build a simple frontend application and have it invoke a Medplum bot that fires off an API call to lang2FHIR with the pdf.
however, as you can see in the recording in the thread, it seems to me that this could be a pretty nifty use case for uploading questionnaires to Medplum particularly if someone is migrating from a legacy system with a bunch of pdfs. if this could be generally useful, would it make sense for me to fork one of the Medplum sample apps so folks could try it out more easily or would just building a sample bot be sufficient? would love your thoughts!
kerry
02/20/2025, 11:06 PM
creating a thread so I can share the brief (30s) recording!
yes! that'd be awesome!
starting as a bot is a great idea. a quick sample app would be great. we've also been talking about adding some UI hooks in the medplum app to make this kind of thing more natural (i.e., on any resource, in the 3-dot menu, have a "Send to bot..." option), and would make demos much easier
k
kerry
02/21/2025, 2:11 AM
ok sweet! will share with you all once it's ready. and the UI hooks would definitely be great for this in the future.
kerry
03/03/2025, 5:00 PM
sooooo I kinda hyperfixated and once I got going I ended up incorporating lang2FHIR into a bunch of other parts of the charting demo (bots + sample app). 😅
i'm making a youtube video to demo this week but sneak peek here + link to the repo!
i think it showcases an AI powered experience which is exciting. definitely lots of opportunities to fine tune/improve and welcome any and all feedback!