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This is the Implementation Guide for the New Zealand Breast Device Registry NZBDR FHIR profile.

The NZBDR FHIR Profile is defined as a referece implementation to ensure structures are defined and interoperable for future research studies.

MedicAlert® Foundation is the custodian of the NZBDR data.

The data in the NZBDR can accessed by approved vendors, surgeons or researchers with by approval through the administrators with enthis approval to create, edit and read implanted and removed breast devices, and information on their procedures and complications.

NZBDR FHIR Profile

The NZBDR FHIR profile defines the structure and resources for the New Zealand Breast Device Registry.

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provides makes MedicAlert's data available via a new digital channel to approved parties. It is expected that first responders and other clinicians will use the API in their applications for functions such as:

  • Discovering existing medical conditions when a person can't talk for themselves
  • Load a patient's drug allergies before adminstering drugs
  • Notifying an emergency contact
  • Validate a DNR order and other advance directive inforamtion

Data Sources

Data is aquired via several connected services, the Member themselves and their Health providers. MedicAlert Foundation NZ reviews, codes, catagorises and rates the data into information that is useful when providing care. Some of these sources are documented on the Data Sources Page

If you are a custodian of a data source that could be better utalised to help prevent harm and save lives, please contact us to discuss integration opportunities.

Eligibility Criteria

Access to First Responder API can only be granted for:

  • Individual themselves
  • Health Sector Professionals with a role in:
    • Emergency help lines
    • Paramedics
    • Providing health services (Doctors, Nurses, Midwives, etc.)
    • Allied services

If you are planning to develop an application for any of the above mentioned use cases or if you have any other use case that might benefit the health sector or the patients, we would love to hear from you and work with you to get you access to the service

Resources & Profiles

The API is a HL7® FHIR© API based on Internationl Patient Summary

The result is a Bundle resource. The Bundle resource has a Composition resource with attestation and references and uses the Resources:

The API supports the standard IPS summary query syntax for returning a member's summary with a search using an identifier (MemberId or NHI).