New Zealand NES IG
1.4.7-snapshot - Release

New Zealand NES IG - Local Development build (v1.4.7-snapshot) built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) Build Tools. See the Directory of published versions

General

The following notes apply to all resources in this implementation.

Resource representation: Json

Only Json is supported by this implementation.

Errors

HTTP Error response codes

Status code Description
400 Bad Request
401 The client needs to provide credentials, or has provided invalid credentials.
403 Authentication was provided, but the authenticated user is not permitted to perform the requested operation.
404 Resource not found
405 HTTP method not allowed
409 Resource conflict, the version provided for the resource is not the current version
413 The request body was too big for the server to accept
422 Unprocessable Entity, resource was rejected by the server because it “violated applicable FHIR profiles or server business rules”
500 General system failure
429 Exceeded quota

Response Body

The Response body may contain an OperationOutcome resource describing the result of the request message processing
The table below describes how the OperationOutcome should be populated

Field Description Cardinality
OperationOutcome.issue 0..n
OperationOutcome.issue[].severity error 0..1
OperationOutcome.issue[].code processing 0..1
OperationOutcome.issue[].details.coding.system https://standards.digital.health.nz/ns/hip-error-code 0..1
OperationOutcome.issue[].details.coding.code See the HIP Error codes 0..1
OperationOutcome.issue[].details.coding.display See the HIP Error codes 0..1
OperationOutcome.issue[].details.text See indicative text on each operation use case 0..1

Error Format


{
    "resourceType": "OperationOutcome",
    "issue": [
        {
            "severity": "error",
            "code": "processing",
            "details": {
                "coding": [
                    {
                        "system": "https://standards.digital.health.nz/ns/hip-error-code",
                        "code": "EM07201"
                        "display": "Missing a required field"
                    }
                ],
                "text": "Name is a required field"
            }
        }
    ]
}

Request Rules and Errors

  • Request rules
    • Every request must include an:
      • http header item UserId that uniquely identifies the individual initiating the request.
      • OAuth 2 access token
      • An api-key
  • Request errors
    • Authentication: missing userid header, HTTP401, Processing
    • Unauthorized, HTTP401
    • Forbidden, HTTP403

HTTP Header Details

  • This is a list of any additions to standard HTTP header protocol

Request Headers

HTTP Header (Key) HTTP Header (Value) Description Mandatory / Recommended / Optional
Authorization Bearer {string} The OAuth2 access token Mandatory
userid {string} Client provided
All requests for all resources must include an http header userid that uniquely identifies the individual initiating the request
Preferably the hpi-person-id of the user would be provided if known, otherwise a userid that allows the authenticated organisation to identify the individual
Mandatory
X-Correlation-Id {string} Client provided
All requests should contain a unique transaction id in the X-Correlation-Id field
If present in the request this will be returned in the response, and can be used to track API calls
Preferred less than 64 characters
Recommended
Content-Type Application/json Supported content type Mandatory
x-api-key {string} Te Whatu Ora Provided – issued with client credentials Mandatory

Response Headers

Element name Value Description
X-Correlation-Id {string} Returned if provided
X-request-Id {string} Unique identifier for the request within the NHI
ETag {string} The resource version number, returned on a Get

Security

OAUTH2

The NES server uses the OAUTH2 Client Credentials flow for authentication and authorisation and complies with the SMART specification for backend services

Scopes

The following scopes are supported. For more information on available functionality please see Business Functions.

Domain SMART on FHIR Scopes Description
Enrolment https://api.hip.digital.health.nz/fhir/system/EpisodeOfCare.r Read access to Enrolment records
Enrolment https://api.hip.digital.health.nz/fhir/system/EpisodeOfCare.s Search access to Enrolment records
Enrolment https://api.hip.digital.health.nz/fhir/system/EpisodeOfCare.u Update access to Enrolment records
Enrolment https://api.hip.digital.health.nz/fhir/system/EpisodeOfCare.c Create access to Enrolment records
Entitlement https://api.hip.digital.health.nz/fhir/system/Coverage.r Read access to Entitlement records
Entitlement https://api.hip.digital.health.nz/fhir/system/Coverage.s Search access to Entitlement records
Entitlement https://api.hip.digital.health.nz/fhir/system/Coverage.u Update access to Entitlement records
Entitlement https://api.hip.digital.health.nz/fhir/system/Coverage.c Create access to Entitlement records
New born enrolments https://api.hip.digital.health.nz/fhir/system/MessageHeader.c Create and respond to enrolment nomination

API Keys and Usage Plans

Clients will be emailed their API key, which should be treated as confidential information and not shared with other parties

An api-key associates the client with a usage plan, which sets upper limits on the API request volume which is permitted. If a client exceeds their usage plan allocation an http error will be returned

Clients will need to add their api key to the x-api-key header in each API request. If no API key is included in the request header, a “Forbidden” error will be returned

Usage Plans

Plan Rate Burst Quota
bronze 1 request per second 5 10,000 requests per day
silver 5 requests per second 25 250,000 requests per day
gold 10 requests per second 50 500,000 requests per day

All test accounts will be assigned to the bronze usage plan. If a Vendor wishes to be assigned to a higher plan, they should contact the Integration team via the General Enquiry form Please request a change to the usage plan and make sure you include the ClientID at minimum (AppId and Orgid also recommended).

Production accounts will be assigned to the silver usage plan. If an Organisation wishes to be assigned to the gold usage plan, they should contact the Te Whatu Ora NHI access team

If an application reaches its usage plan limit an HTTP 429 error will be returned. The expected behaviour is that the application will retry several times with an exponentially increasing delay

GEO Restriction

GEO Restriction rules prevent access from clients with IPs located in countries other than those listed below. If you need access from another country, please contact our team by completing the Enquiry form or adding a comment to the online onboarding request form if you have one.

  • New Zealand
  • Australia
  • Canada
  • Cook Islands