Questions tagged [hl7-fhir]

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is a standard for health care data exchange, published by HL7®.

FHIR is an interoperability standard intended to facilitate the exchange of healthcare information between organizations. It consists of 2 main parts – a content model in the form of ‘resources’, and a specification for the exchange of these resources in the form of real-time RESTful interfaces as well as messaging and Documents.

It's published by HL7 (Health Level Seven International).

Documentation is available on HL7 website: http://hl7.org/fhir/documentation.html

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FHIR Differential Profiles

When declaring a differential element in a StructureDefinition, does the differential element replace ALL the properties of the base element, or only the specified properties? Example: ... ... …
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Resource Identifiers between two FHIR servers

Our scenario is there is an EHR system that is integrating with a device sensor partner using FHIR. In this scenario both companies will have independent FHIR servers. Each of them has different Patient and Organization(s) records with their own…
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HL7-FHIR accepting absolute foreign references on server

In 2.6.3 Copying Resources and re-identification of DSTU1 there's a description of how clients may have to re-assign ids on resources pulled from a server. My question is what should be allowed when going in the opposite direction. I see no issue…
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Some basics of compartment search

I am new to FHIR, and am unable to understand the concept of compartment search.I have read compartment is a group of similar resources, but when we do compartment search we provide the following path:…
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HL7-FHIR: Bundle pagination fails for date range query

I am querying FHIR resources based on date range and using HL7.Fhir.Core C# library to parse and paginate the bundle. Only for a query based on date range pagination fails and fhirClient.Continue throws exception 'Internal server error'(I don't know…
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FHIR queries using chained parameters

I'm working on a server query engine that will return FHIR resources and I've run into a problem. I can successfully receive an Get and Search queries that use simple parameters (like Composition/4 or Patient?name=smith) but I can't get it to…
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Javascript Fhir on NodeJS

I've been using a fhir.js library in nodejs. I have got the read and search working but not the create or update which consistently gives me an error. Has anyone else used this library? I instantiate my client like this: var client = new mkFhir({ …
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FHIR Observation: coding NaNs, +/-Inf

Devices sometimes send NaN (Not a Number) or +/-Inf (plus/minus) infinity when these special cases arise. I do not see a means to encode them into the FHIR Observation resource reliability or to place them as codes into the value element itself.…
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Can we have a compartment other than Patient in FHIR?

FHIR docs say: Each resource may belong to one or more logical compartments here On the other hand, it also says that the specs define patient as a compartment. Does that mean we can only have patient as a compartment or can we have any resource to…
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What happened to Other resource type in the DSTU2?

Is other resource type still supported in DSTU2? I can't seem to find it in the following resource list: http://www.hl7.org/fhir/2015May/resourcelist.html Thanks. Mehmood.
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Traversing the Location hierarchy

Is there a search construct that would allow a client to search for Locations in another location (e.g. a bed within a hospital or campus). There are tree-traversal notions for ValueSets (code systems), but I don't anything for the part-of trees?
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Representing Encounter-related charges

Where is the appropriate place in the FHIR model for encounter-related charges (professional or facility)? Should these be stored: as an extension within the Encounter resource? in the Claim resource somewhere else altogether?
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Implementing Queue system using List FHIR Resource

I would like to use List FHIR resource to implement a queue system. Are there any existing implementation guides on this? Please assist.
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FHIR DSTU2: What is the correct way to represent an extension value as a collection?

I'm currently looking into creating a FHIR DSTU2 extension. I need the extension to return a collection of values. What is the correct way to represent this in FHIR DSTU2? Should it be a list of extensions within an extension: "resource": { …
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Machine redable FHIR mappings and formal definitions?

The formal definitions (for example patient definitions) and the mappings (for example patient mappings) would be even more useful if they were in an easily processed format (CSV, rdb, etc). Is it necessary to scrape that information out of the…