Draft Bulk Submit IG
Audience and Scope
This implementation guide is intended to be used by developers at organizations that aim to interoperate by sharing large FHIR datasets. The guide defines the application programming interfaces (APIs) through which an authenticated and authorized system (Data Provider) may submit Bulk FHIR Data to a server (Data Recipient) and receive status information regarding the server's receipt and/or processing of the data.
For example, an health system may use this approach to submit FHIR data to a regulatory agency which will calculate quality measures, or to load FHIR data from an Electronic Health Record system into an analytics server.
The scope of this document does NOT include:
The activities a Data Recipient needs to do to validate and process the submitted data
A legal framework for sharing data between partners, such as Business Associate Agreements, Service Level Agreements, and Data Use Agreements, though these may be required for some use cases