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National Population Failsafe Management - FHIR API
Raise failsafe alerts about children with the National Population Failsafe Management (NPFM) FHIR API.
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Overview
Use this API to raise and nullify failsafe alerts about children with the National Population Failsafe Management (NPFM) Service.
You can:
- raise a failsafe alert - a notification of action to be taken by the receiving service
- nullify a failsafe alert
These alerts are published or received by the National Events Management Service (NEMS).
For more details, see the NPFM Introduction.
API status
This API is in beta.
Technology
This API is a FHIR API.
Specifically, it is based on the HL7 FHIR STU3 Messaging Implementation.
These alerts are published or received by the National Event Management Service (NEMS).
For more details, see FHIR.
Interactions
For a full list of interactions for this API, see National Failsafe Alert and National Failsafe Alert Nullify Request.
For details on the general structure of the interactions, see FHIR.