Implement IHE Mobile access to Health Documents (MHD) to publish and retrieve clinical documents using FHIR DocumentReference and List resources as an alternative to XDS
domain: profiles.ihe.net/ITI/MHD · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Assemble a FHIR transaction Bundle containing a DocumentManifest (List), DocumentReference, and Binary resource for the document content to submit a document set
POST the transaction Bundle to the MHD Document Recipient endpoint; verify the response Bundle confirms successful creation of all entries
Search for documents with GET /DocumentReference?patient={id}&status=current to retrieve active documents for a patient
Fetch the document content by dereferencing DocumentReference.content[0].attachment.url; the URL may point to a Binary FHIR resource or an external URL
Verify DocumentReference.type is coded with a LOINC document type code and DocumentReference.category uses the appropriate XDS class code mapped to FHIR
Known gotchas
MHD Provide Document Bundle requires a specific transaction Bundle structure with conditional create logic; sending individual POSTs instead of a transaction Bundle is not conformant with the IHE profile
Binary resources for document content must be accessed with Accept: application/octet-stream or the document-specific MIME type; requesting them as FHIR JSON returns the base64-encoded wrapper, not raw bytes
MHD is an IHE profile layered on FHIR and may have additional conformance requirements beyond base FHIR; verify the endpoint's MHD actor declaration (Document Source vs Document Recipient) before designing the interaction
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