FHIR Chat · Favorite resource

Stream: social

Topic: Favorite resource

Brendan Keeler (Jul 20 2021 at 06:00):

What's the best FHIR resource?

Brendan Keeler (Jul 20 2021 at 06:01):

I'm going to get wild and say Subscription

Brendan Keeler (Jul 20 2021 at 06:02):

The pendulum has swung too far. Pure query/REST is wasteful and we must atone for our sins

Jim Steel (Jul 20 2021 at 06:02):

Terminology guy says ValueSet :)

Brian Postlethwaite (Jul 20 2021 at 06:11):

It's definitely the Patient resource - since we don't have an impatient resource :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Ewout Kramer (Jul 20 2021 at 09:04):

StructureDefinition - it gives me purpose and structures my life and thinking since 2010.

John Moehrke (Jul 20 2021 at 12:22):

Provenance

Cooper Thompson (Jul 20 2021 at 13:28):

OperationOutcome. It is how everyone tells everyone else they are using their favorite resources the wrong way.

Josh Mandel (Jul 20 2021 at 13:39):

CapabilityStatement: we engage in the collective fiction that it's possible to describe how our FHIR servers work, but reality is always more complex. It's a carefully constructed exercise to help ease software developers into the challenges of working with clinical data models.

;-)

David Pyke (Jul 20 2021 at 13:47):

Bundle, it keeps us all together.

Paul Church (Jul 20 2021 at 13:51):

DomainResource, it has extensions and contained so it can already do everything.

Paul Church (Jul 20 2021 at 13:51):

Honestly don't know why we bother with all the other ones.

John Moehrke (Jul 20 2021 at 14:05):

except DomainResource also has modifier extensions...

David Pyke (Jul 20 2021 at 14:06):

That means if it's not your favourite, you can modify it to be your favourit

John Moehrke (Jul 20 2021 at 14:07):

DomainResource with a profile that forbids modifierExtension might be my favorite.

John Moehrke (Jul 20 2021 at 14:08):

but without Provenance... none of the other resources can prove where they came from.

David Pyke (Jul 20 2021 at 14:09):

Sometimes a Patient may want a fresh start and Provenance prevents that. I don't want a resource to tell my history if I change cities

Josh Mandel (Jul 20 2021 at 14:10):

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John Moehrke (Jul 20 2021 at 14:31):

okay, @Josh Mandel wins...

Kumar Satyam (Jul 20 2021 at 14:36):

CapabilityStatement for me. No fhir server without capability statement hence my vote for it.

Lloyd McKenzie (Jul 20 2021 at 15:10):

Basic - no limits!!

Lloyd McKenzie (Jul 20 2021 at 15:10):

Plus, my programming life started with Basic :)

Elliot Silver (Jul 20 2021 at 15:54):

John Moehrke said:

Provenance

Really? Where did that come from?

David Pyke (Jul 20 2021 at 15:55):

That's a good question. If I want to know what changes happening in a Provenance resource, how do I structure that query? How many levels of Provenance should I be monitoring?

Elliot Silver (Jul 20 2021 at 15:57):

Provenance all the way down.

John Moehrke (Jul 20 2021 at 16:29):

yes, Turtles (Provenance) all the way down.

Brian Postlethwaite (Jul 21 2021 at 05:14):

If only there was a way to capture this, and some resource to help with that?

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