Health Data Lake on GCP Healthcare API

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Setting up a Health Data Lake using the GCP Healthcare API requires orchestrating several Google Cloud services to securely manage, store, process, and analyze health data. You will use the Pulumi infrastructure as code to provision these services, which typically include:

1. **Healthcare Dataset**: The foundational container for all healthcare data. It organizes DICOM, HL7v2 store, and FHIR resources under a single unit.

2. **DICOM Store**: A storage solution for DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) data, such as radiology and other medical images.

3. **FHIR Store**: Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) store for healthcare data, enabling interoperability and easy access to structured data.

4. **IAM Policies**: To control access to the healthcare data stored in these services securely.

In the following Pulumi program written in Python, we will create a GCP Healthcare Dataset, a DICOM store, and a FHIR store. IAM bindings will be set to restrict access only to authorized entities. This is a fundamental setup, and specific requirements might necessitate additional configurations not covered here.

Here's the Python program to achieve that:

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_gcp as gcp

# Set up a GCP project and location to host resources in.
project = 'your-gcp-project'
location = 'your-gcp-location'

# Create a healthcare dataset.
healthcare_dataset = gcp.healthcare.Dataset("health_data_lake",
    # The resource must have a name, and you can reference other Pulumi objects within strings.
    name="health_data_lake_dataset",
    project=project,
    location=location,
    # Time zones are specified in strings and are necessary for the dataset resource.
    time_zone="GMT",
)

# Documentation reference for GCP Healthcare Dataset:
# https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/gcp/api-docs/healthcare/dataset/

# Create a DICOM store within the dataset.
dicom_store = gcp.healthcare.DicomStore("dicom_store",
    name="dicom-store",
    dataset=healthcare_dataset.id,
    # When specifying `dataset`, note that it references the `id` of the dataset resource.
    location=location,
    project=project
)

# Documentation reference for GCP Healthcare DICOM Store:
# https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/gcp/api-docs/healthcare/dicomstore/

# Create a FHIR store within the dataset.
fhir_store = gcp.healthcare.FhirStore("fhir_store",
    name="fhir-store",
    dataset=healthcare_dataset.id,
    location=location,
    project=project,
    # The version setting is required and determines compatibility with FHIR specifications.
    version="R4",
)

# Documentation reference for GCP Healthcare FHIR Store:
# https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/gcp/api-docs/healthcare/fhirstore/

# Export relevant URIs and IDs.
pulumi.export("healthcare_dataset_uri", healthcare_dataset.self_link)
pulumi.export("dicom_store_uri", dicom_store.self_link)
pulumi.export("fhir_store_uri", fhir_store.self_link)
```

Here we've used `pulumi_gcp`, a Pulumi package for interfacing with GCP resources.

Going through the code, we've declared resources for a healthcare dataset, a DICOM store, and a FHIR store. These resources are building blocks for a health data lake system, with a dataset acting as an overarching container that may contain various data stores for different types of health data.

Finally, we exported the URIs of our created resources. These can be used to interface with your Health Data Lake through GCP's APIs or SDKs, enabling applications and analysts to interact with the health data.

Please remember to replace `'your-gcp-project'` and `'your-gcp-location'` with your actual GCP project ID and the location where you want to host your resources. After deployment, check the outputs from this Pulumi program to retrieve the URIs for the dataset and stores.

To run this Pulumi program, save it to a file named `__main__.py`, navigate to the directory containing this file in your terminal, and run `pulumi up`. This command starts the Pulumi deployment process, where it previews your changes and asks for your confirmation before provisioning the resources on GCP.