MDHT Consolidated CDA Validator: JSON API

Online Demo

Hosted by AppFog: http://mdht-webapp.aws.af.cm/validation-request

# Get a sample document
curl "https://raw.github.com/chb/sample_ccdas/master/NIST%20Samples/CCDA_CCD_b1_Ambulatory_v2.xml" \
     -o sample-ccda.xml

# Validate it
curl -X POST \
    --header "Content-Type:application/xml" \
    -d @sample-ccda.xml \
    http://mdht-webapp.aws.af.cm/validation-request

# Wait for it. 

The **first request can take ~15 seconds** as the MDHT framework bootstraps.
Subsequent requests should be more like **~1s**

Build, Test, Deploy

Setup

Requirements:

• Java 1.6+
• maven 3 (Note: will not work with maven 2)
• python
• wget

Tested on Ubuntu 12.10.

sh setup.sh

Run in Jetty

mvn jetty:run

Test with curl

curl -X POST \
  --header "Content-Type:application/xml" \
  -d @/sample/ccda.xml \
  http://localhost:9090/ccda/validation-request \
  -vvv 

Response

{
  "schemaValidationDiagnostics": 0,
  "emfResourceDiagnostics": 0,
  "emfValidationDiagnostics": 233,
  "totalDiagnostics": 233,
  "valid": false,
  "errors":   [
    "Consol Cognitive Status Problem Observation SHALL contain at least one [1..*] entryRelationship (CONF:14335, CONF:14589, CONF:14352) Contains @typeCode=\"REFR\" REFR, and Contains exactly one [1..1] Caregiver Characteristics (templateId: 2.16.840.1.113883.10.20.22.4.72)",
    "Consol Cognitive Status Problem Observation SHALL contain at least one [1..*] entryRelationship (CONF:14467, CONF:14590, CONF:14468) Contains @typeCode=\"COMP\" COMP, and Contains exactly one [1..1] Assessment Scale Observation (templateId: 2.16.840.1.113883.10.20.22.4.69)",
    "Mu2consol Social History Section SHALL contain at least one [1..*] entry Contains exactly one [1..1] Smoking Status Observation (templateId: 2.16.840.1.113883.10.22.4.78)"
  ],
  "warnings":   [
    "Consol General Header Constraints SHALL contain at least one [1..*] recordTarget (CONF:5266) each SHALL contain exactly one [1..1] patientRole, where  (CONF:5268) patient Role SHALL contain exactly one [1..1] patient, where  (CONF:5283) each SHOULD contain zero or more [0..*] languageCommunication, where  (CONF:5406) languageCommunication SHOULD contain zero or one [0..1] proficiencyLevelCode, where the @code SHALL be selected from ValueSet LanguageAbilityProficiency 2.16.840.1.113883.1.11.12199 STATIC (CONF:9965)",
    "Consol General Header Cons
...
  ],
  "infos": []
}

Deploying

Deploy target/ccda-server.war as needed.

Limitations

• MDHT stack is not thread-safe, so the validation code is currently wrapped in a synchronized block. This effectively limits the number of concurrent requests to 1. (Workaround: host multiple instances of the servlet multiple and reverse proxy to them.)

• Validation is slow (on the the order of 15 seconds per document).