Set Up Your Own FHIR Server Using HAPI FHIR

In this video, we see how to set up your own FHIR server using the HAPI FHIR JPA server, which is the official Java reference implementation of FHIR. For developers, setting up your own server can be an important step in moving from test servers to a local environment.

The HAPI FHIR JPA server combines the HAPI RESTful server to handle HTTP requests, HAPI DAO layer to implement business logic and a database communicator to handle persistence. It also abstracts a lot of the complexity and makes it easy to spin up a full FHIR stack locally.

In this tutorial we will:

• Clone a preconfigured starter project
• Initiate Docker Compose or Maven
• And access server metadata to confirm your server is up