Creating a RESTful FHIR API
As you may recall, your APIs will be accessing an FHIR server that provides healthcare resources. Given that, when you create your FHIR RESTful API, you will need an endpoint. For the examples provided in this section, you will be referencing the online HAPI Test FHIR server that is at this location:
http://hapi.fhir.org/baseR4/swagger-ui/
You have learned to use the LTE and have been introduced to the API Manager Drafts Designer. You'll be using the LTE initially and then switch to the API Manager so that you can learn the other capabilities of the API Manager.
If you haven't already downloaded the chapter files from the URL mentioned in the Technical requirements section of this chapter, you should do that now and place them in a directory/folder on your local device.
Now that you have the files, you can log in and begin developing APIs.
Playing with FHIR
Everyone has a lot of fun utilizing FHIR in puns, but when it gets down...