Subscriptions

Subscriptions are event-driven notifications, like webhooks, are are commonly used for integrations and automations. Medplum supports subscribing to changes on FHIR resources. There is a description FHIR Subscriptions on HL7.org that describes the functionality in detail.

• Subscriptions can be created and updated on the Medplum App
• Subscriptions are commonly used with bots and questionnaires to enable complex workflows.
• AuditEvents can be used to see a history of Subscription triggers and are useful in troubleshooting.
• Subscription features and fixes can be seen in detail on Github.

Additional Documentation

• Use the subscription tag to quickly find all documentation related to Subscriptions
• Resending Webhooks describes the $resend operation for manually triggering webhooks
• Subscription Extensions describes advanced subscription features that allow more fine-grained control and security
• WebSocket Subscriptions describes WebSocket subscriptions and usage of them via the React useSubscription hook