21.0CDS HooksTrial
CDS Hooks are services called by CDS Clients (typically Electronic Health Record Systems (EHRs) or other health information systems). They implement a "hook"-based pattern for invoking decision support from within a clinician's workflow.
Smile CDR implements Version 1.1 of the CDS Hooks Specification.
The Smile CDR CDS Hooks Module simplifies the effort for creating CDS Hooks. All you need to do is create a method that accepts a CdsServiceRequestJson parameter and returns a CdsServiceResponseJson value and annotate this method with the @CdsService annotation. This annotation, and the Json classes and all their subcomponents are available in the open-source project called cdr-api-public. Any FHIR resources in requests and responses are automatically serialized into hapi-fhir FHIR resource instances for you so they are easy to work with within your code.
In addition to simplifying the effort to build CDS Hooks, the Smile CDR CDS Hooks module also provides the following:
- All access is logged in the Smile CDR Audit Trail.
- Authorization is controlled by the Smile CDR security framework.
- Management and monitoring capabilities are provided by the Smile CDR platform.
21.0.1Auto PrefetchTrial
The Smile CDR CDS Hooks module provides a couple of powerful Auto-Prefetch features:
- If
allowAutoFhirClientPrefetchis set totruein the@CdsServiceannotation on your CDS Service method, then before calling your method, Smile CDR will compare the prefetch elements declared by your service method in the@CdsServiceannotation to the prefetch elements included within theCdsServiceRequestJsonREST request and if it detects any are missing, then Smile CDR will use the FHIR endpoint authorization details included within thefhirAuthorizationelement in the request to automatically add them to the prefetch before calling your method. - Even simpler, if your Smile CDR server has a FHIR Storage module, you can optionally add a dependency from your CDS Hooks Module on your FHIR Storage module. If you do this, then when Smile CDR detects any required prefetch elements missing in a request, it will automatically fetch the missing data from your storage module before calling your CDS Hooks method. Note in this case, the same credentials used to call the CDS Hooks endpoint are used to authorize access to the FHIR Storage module.
CDS Hooks Auto Prefetch Rules
- If there are no missing prefetch elements, the CDS Hooks service method is called directly with the request. (Note
that per the CDS Hooks specification, a value of
nullis not considered to be missing. CDS Hooks clients set a prefetch value tonullto indicate that this prefetch data is known to not exist). - Otherwise, if a
fhirServeris included in the request- If the
@CdsServiceannotation on the service method hasallowAutoFhirClientPrefetch = true, then Smile CDR will perform a FHIR REST call to thatfhirServerendpoint to fetch the missing data. - otherwise, the CDS Hooks service method is expected to call the
fhirServerendpoint itself to retrieve the missing data.
- If the
- Otherwise, if the CDS Hooks Module declares a dependency on a FHIR Storage Module, then Smile CDR will fetch the missing data from that FHIR Storage Module.
- Otherwise, the method will fail with HTTP 412 PRECONDITION FAILED (per the CDS Hooks specification).
- The Auto-Prefetch rules can be overridden for individual elements by setting a
sourcefor the@CdsServicePrefetch. Smile CDR will attempt to use thesourcestrategy for the query instead of following the order above.
21.0.2ArchitectureTrial
The diagram below shows how CDS Hooks work. The box in grey contains customer code, which is code that you write.
A CDS Hooks implementation is packaged as a Java JAR file that contains several key components:
- CDS Service classes, which implement CDS Hooks service and feedback methods.
- A Spring Context Config class, which is a Spring Framework class used to instantiate and configure the CDS Hooks classes.
21.0.3CDS Hooks ClassesTrial
A CDS Hooks class contains annotated service and feedback methods. One CDS Hooks class can contain any number of these methods. A CDS Hooks service method is annotated with the @CdsService annotation and a CDS Hooks feedback method is annotated with the @CdsServiceFeedback annotation. The "value" of these annotations corresponds to the id of the CDS Hooks service. For example:
A method annotated with @CdsService(value="example-service") is acccessed at a path like https://example.com:8888/cds-services/example-service
A method annotated with @CdsServiceFeedback(value="my-service") is acccessed ata path like https://example.com:8888/cds-services/my-service/feedback.
A very basic example is shown below:
package ca.cdr.endpoint.cdshooks.module;
import ca.cdr.api.cdshooks.CdsService;
import ca.cdr.api.cdshooks.CdsServiceFeedback;
import ca.cdr.api.cdshooks.CdsServicePrefetch;
import ca.cdr.api.cdshooks.json.CdsServiceFeedbackJson;
import ca.cdr.api.cdshooks.json.CdsServiceIndicatorEnum;
import ca.cdr.api.cdshooks.json.CdsServiceRequestJson;
import ca.cdr.api.cdshooks.json.CdsServiceResponseCardJson;
import ca.cdr.api.cdshooks.json.CdsServiceResponseCardSourceJson;
import ca.cdr.api.cdshooks.json.CdsServiceResponseJson;
import org.hl7.fhir.r4.model.Patient;
public class ExampleCdsService {
@CdsService(value = "example-service",
hook = "patient-view",
title = "Greet a patient",
description = "This service says hello to a patient",
prefetch = {
@CdsServicePrefetch(value = "patient", query = "Patient/{{context.patientId}}")
})
public CdsServiceResponseJson exampleService(CdsServiceRequestJson theCdsRequest) {
Patient patient = (Patient) theCdsRequest.getPrefetch("patient");
CdsServiceResponseJson response = new CdsServiceResponseJson();
CdsServiceResponseCardJson card = new CdsServiceResponseCardJson();
card.setSummary("Hello " + patient.getNameFirstRep().getNameAsSingleString());
card.setIndicator(CdsServiceIndicatorEnum.INFO);
CdsServiceResponseCardSourceJson source = new CdsServiceResponseCardSourceJson();
source.setLabel("Smile CDR");
card.setSource(source);
response.addCard(card);
return response;
}
@CdsServiceFeedback("example-service")
public String exampleServiceFeedback(CdsServiceFeedbackJson theFeedback) {
return "{\"message\": \"Thank you for your feedback dated " + theFeedback.getOutcomeTimestamp() + "!\"}";
}
}
Both of these example methods accept a single json instance parameter (CdsServiceRequestJson
and CdsServiceFeedbackJson respectively). Alternatively, these methods can accept a single String parameter in which case the CDS Hooks module will string-encode the instance before calling the method.
21.0.4The Spring Context Config ClassTrial
This mandatory class is a Spring Framework Annotation-based Application Context Config class. It is characterized by having the @Configuration annotation on the class itself, as well as having one or more non-static factory methods annotated with the @Bean method, which create instances of your providers (as well as creating any other utility classes you might need, such as database pools, HTTP clients, etc.).
This class must instantiate a bean named cdsServices:
- The
cdsServicesbean method should return aList<Object>of classes that contain@CdsServiceand/or@CdsServiceFeedbackannotated methods.
The following example shows a Spring Context Config class that registers the CDS Hooks example above.
@Configuration
public class TestServerAppCtx {
/**
* This bean is a list of CDS Hooks classes, each one
* of which implements one or more CDS-Hook Services.
*/
@Bean(name = "cdsServices")
public List<Object> cdsServices(){
List<Object> retVal = new ArrayList<>();
retVal.add(new ExampleCdsService());
// add other CDS Hooks classes...
return retVal;
}
}
21.0.5Building Your CDS HooksTrial
This section outlines considerations when building your CDS Hooks classes.
In order to build your Smile CDR CDS Hooks, you will need the annotation and json classes on your path. Currently, this is accomplished by adding the cdr-api-public-*.jar file to your build classpath. This jar file can be found in your smilecdr/lib folder. In the future, this jar will be published to a central repository and available as a maven dependency.
See Library Support for details concerning libraries available on the classpath where your CDS Hooks classes are loaded.
Packaging Your Providers
The Spring Context Config class and your CDS Hooks classes must all be packaged up in a normal Java JAR file. No third party libraries should be packaged with your code.
If you are using Apache Maven as your build system, this just means you should use a normal project with a packaging of jar.
21.0.6Deploying Your CDS HooksTrial
Once you have created a JAR with your CDS Hooks in it, this JAR should be placed in the customerlib/ directory of the Smile CDR installation, and Smile CDR should be restarted. You will then want to create a new module configuration as follows:
- Log into the Web Admin Console.
- Navigate to the Module Config section ( Config -> Module Config ).
- Create a new module of type CDS Hooks REST Endpoint.
- Give the module a sensible ID.
- Under Listener Port, enter a port that the server will listen on.
- Under Spring Context Config Class, enter the fully qualified class name for your Spring Context Config Class.
- Under FHIR Version, enter the FHIR version that is used by your CDS Hooks clients. Any resources included in
CDS Hooks requests (e.g. in context or prefetch) will be deserialized into hapi-fhir
IBaseResourceobjects according to this FHIR Version.
21.0.7Accessing Security AttributesTrial
CDS Hooks methods have access to the underlying authenticated user session if needed. See Security Attributes for more information.
21.0.8ExceptionsTrial
See Exceptions for details concerning exceptions and error management within CDS Hooks classes.
21.0.9Calling CDS HooksTrial
Per Version 1.1 of the CDS Hooks Specification, a list of all registered services is available at a path like https://example.com:8888/cds-services. As a convenience, swagger REST documentation is provided at the root of the endpoint: https://example.com:8888/.
21.0.10Example ProjectTrial
A sample CDS Hooks project is available at the following links: