Welcome to the Raven Platform documentation!

This document exists as a guide to help users understand the Raven mortality platform, providing both end-user manuals as well as technical documentation.

What is Raven?

Raven is an open-source and proof of concept platform for the Medicolegal Death Investigation (MDI) FHIR Implementation Guide (IG). It is both a

1. Testing Tool for data validation, data comparison, data exchange via API, and any features on demand in the future, and

2. Education Tool for showing various examples in FHIR format and workflows in action”

The current Raven tooling and tests aid developers in implementing the MDI FHIR record format by validating the data against MDI IG guidelines and FHIR-based extended API operations. For more information on each Raven tool components, Raven’s MDI CSV schema, or MDI FHIR standard please see the corresponding sections in this document, accessible through the table of contents below or the sidebar navigation menu.

• End User Manual
  • The MDI Standard
    • What is FHIR?
    • What is MDI FHIR IG?
    • Overview of MDI Workflows
      • MDI-to-EDRS
      • Toxicology-to-MDI
  • Record Management
    • Record Import (Importing MDI Records)
      • Spreadsheet Schema
    • Record Viewer (Viewing Cases)
  • Validation And Comparison
    • Archtecture
  • Workflow Simulator
    • Workflows/Use Cases
      • Search EDRS (CMS to EDRS)
• Technical Manual
  • Standard MDI API (MAPI)
    • Operation APIs for MDI-to-EDRS Workflow
    • Security Recommendations
      • Secure Data Transportation
      • Standard Authorization Protocol
        • Roles in OAuth2
        • OAuth2 Flows
          • Client Registration
          • Authorization Request
          • Access Token Request
          • Refresh Token Request
          • Accessing Resource Server
          • Error Handling
    • Search API
      • Extended Operation for MDI-to-EDRS Document generation
      • Error Handling
    • Read API
    • Update API
      • Update using FHIR Messaging
  • Component Overview
    • Raven FHIR Server
    • Bluejay FHIR Server
    • Raven Dashboard
    • Raven Import API
    • Validation Service
  • Libraries
    • MDI JavaLib
    • MDI .NET
• About Raven Team

Raven is released under the Apache License 2.0.

Public Raven URL: https://apps.hdap.gatech.edu/raven/

Source repositories for Raven can be found in the GitHub Mortality Reporting Organization.

Note

• All data shown is synthetic for demonstration purposes only and does not represent actual cases or decedents.*

• Screenshots may be taken from earlier internal versions of Raven and may not be 100% accurate to the final release.*

If you find an error in the Raven platform and documentation, please go to the “About Raven Team” page and let us know!