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Quickstart: Azure Health Data Services

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Follow the steps in this article to create a workspace before you deploy instances of Azure Health Data Services in the Azure portal. The workspace is a centralized logical container for Azure Health Data services such as FHIR® services, DICOM® services, and MedTech services. It allows you to organize and manage configuration settings that are shared among all the underlying datasets and services.

Prerequisites

Before you create a workspace in the Azure portal, you need an Azure account subscription. For more information, see Create your free Azure account today.

Create a resource

  1. In the Azure portal, select Create a resource.

    Screenshot showing resource creation.

  2. In the search box, enter Azure Health Data Services.

    Screenshot showing how to search for Azure Health Data Services.

  3. Choose Create to create an Azure Health Data Services account.

    Screenshot showing how to create a new account.

  4. On the Basics tab, under Project details, from the dropdown lists select a Subscription and Resource group.

  5. Choose Create new to create a new resource group.

    Screenshot showing the workspace settings on the Basics tab.

  6. Enter a Name for the workspace, and then select a Region. The name must be 3 to 24 alphanumeric characters, all lowercase. Don't use a hyphen "-" as it's an invalid character for the name. For information about regions and availability zones, see Regions and Availability Zones in Azure.

  7. Select Next: Networking >. Connect a workspace publicly with the default Public endpoint (all networks) option selected. You can also connect a workspace using a private endpoint by selecting the Private endpoint option. For more information about accessing Azure Health Data Services over a private endpoint, see Configure Private Link for Azure Health Data Services.

    Screenshot showing the Networking tab.

  8. Select Next: Tags > if you want to include name and value pairs to categorize resources and view consolidated billing by applying the same tag to multiple resources and resource groups. Enter a Name and Value for the workspace, and then select Review + create or Next: Review + create. For more information about tags, see Use tags to organize your Azure resources and management hierarchy.

    Screenshot showing the Tags tab.

  9. Review the details. Choose Create if you don't need to make any changes to the workspace project and instance details. If you need to make changes to the project and instance details, select Previous.

    Screenshot showing details about the workspace.

    Optional: Select Download a template for automation of the newly created workspace.

  10. After the workspace deployment process is complete, select Go to resource.

    Screenshot showing the workspace and the Go to resource button.

  11. Create instances of the FHIR service, DICOM service, and MedTech service in the newly created Azure Health Data Services workspace.

    Screenshot showing the newly created workspace.

Next steps

Deploy the FHIR service

Deploy the DICOM service

Deploy the MedTech service and ingest data into the FHIR service

Convert data to FHIR format

Note

FHIR® is a registered trademark of HL7 and is used with the permission of HL7.

DICOM® is the registered trademark of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association for its Standards publications relating to digital communications of medical information.