Adding MPI Clients

The Master Patient Index (MPI) client that will be used is determined by the property org.highmed.dsf.bpe.mpi.webservice.factory.class and loaded using a service loader, searching for the supplied class of type MasterPatientIndexClientFactory on startup of the BPE.

The framework currently only supports an MPI client using the IHE PDQ interface (the property is org.highmed.mpi.client.pdq.MasterPatientIndexClientPdqFactory). But it is possible to add new MPI clients (e.g. for IHE PDQv3 or FHIR interfaces) by adding a plugin jar to the plugin configuration folder.

To write a new MPI client, the following has to be taken into account:

• The plugin needs to supply a MPI client factory implementing the interface MasterPatientIndexClientFactory from the dsf-mpi-client module.
• The resources folder must contain a file with the name META-INF/services/org.highmed.mpi.client.MasterPatientIndexClientFactory containing the name of the new MPI client factory including the full package name.

An example of an MPI client implementation can be found in the dsf-mpi-client-pdq module.