Aidbox Forms

Form building and structured data capturing with Aidbox

Aidbox Forms is a pluggable module for healthcare vendors who develop EHR-like solutions on top of Aidbox. It allows for designing intelligent and styled forms from scratch with a flexible DSL and layer-by-layer approach, editing these forms by clinicians, storing structured data in one place as linked FHIR resources, and sharing through different and customizable APIs: FHIR, export, and reporting API.

Building forms and capturing structured data is a complex process.

One of the solutions is suggested by FHIR. There is the FHIR SDC Implementation Guide which describes how to collect data using Questionnaire and QuestionnaireResponse resources. It is a good way. But the implementation on FHIR turned out to be not convenient, a massive QuestionnaireResponse with nested objects does not allow you to conveniently work with this table and make all kinds of queries, as well as build analytics on the data. Additionally, QuestionnaireResponse is too generic and difficult to work with.

We developed our solution based on domain-specific language (DSL) which gives flexibility and composability, with which you can describe layer-by-layer any forms with complex logic and embed them in a workflow, capture structured data in FHIR storage.

Our solution

We have presented the form as a layered structure. To design the form, you need to describe the necessary layers using DSL.

Each layer is responsible for solving a specific problem:

• How structured data will be stored - Data Model layer (Document DSL)

• How a form will be rendered - Layout layer (Layout DSL)

• How to prefill a form with existing data and set the conext - Prefill layer (Launch DSL)

• How data will be itemized & extracted to FHIR resources - FHIR mapping layer (Finalize DSL)

• How data will be validated and how to put constraints on the fields - Validation layer (FinalizeConstrains DSL)

• How to bind all layers for specific form - Form layer (Form DSL)

One layer is required - Data Model layer, the rest are optional depending on needs of your practice.

By using Aidbox Forms you can:

• Create forms with complex logic

• Prefill form with existing data

• Add any validation rules to the forms

• Design the layout according to your style (in roadmap)

• Extract data & store them in FHIR resources

• Binding of forms in the workflow with complex logic and data prefilling

• FHIR SDC support (in roadmap)

• IDE: form editor with debug & test mode

• Form builder for non-developers (in roadmap)

• Wide templates library (in roadmap)

• Basic UI component library

• Coding clinical data with LOINC, SNOMED, RxNorm others