Hybrid GraphQL-FHIR Gateway for Real-Time Retail-Health Data Interchange
Keywords:
GraphQL, FHIR, OAuth 2.0, real-time data interchange, schema stitching, prescription workflowsAbstract
We test a hybrid GraphQL-FHIR gateway for real-time retail health data exchange. The gateway requests and modifies field-level data using OAuth 2.0 scopes for stringent access control. Open-source middleware transforms FHIR to GraphQL. Even with multiple users filling prescriptions, sync loyalty programs, and interact with consumers at the point of sale, the system provides exact schema stitching and secure transactions. Benchmarking system performance, load delay, and mutation consistency. This means the gateway can decrease vendor API and overfetching. The gateway modifies FHIR profiles and supports retail health use cases via schema federation and query introspection. Experimental findings suggest that the method improves operational efficiency, interoperability, and safe omnichannel data flow for scalable and compliant health-retail connections in contemporary organisational ecosystems.
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