FHIR Chat · Appointment search parameter

Stream: implementers

Topic: Appointment search parameter

Kathy Pickering (Nov 27 2019 at 16:29):

We want to be able to search for both booked and proposed appointments in one request. The current date search parameter is mapped to Appointment.start. Since proposed appointments are missing start, we need a new search parameter that is mapped to both Appointment.start and Appointment.requestedPeriod. We are proposing the new search parameter be called "date-period".

Does anyone else have the same requirement and have found a solution? Does anyone have a better name for the search parameter?

Grahame Grieve (Nov 27 2019 at 16:35):

shouldn't we just fix the existing parameter? but what if they are different?

Grahame Grieve (Nov 27 2019 at 16:36):

why not just 2 search parameters?

Jenni Syed (Dec 02 2019 at 16:28):

@Grahame Grieve In this case, the caller just wants appointments that will or might start at a certain time. This worked in prior versions because there was just one field. Without getting into the filter syntax, there would be no way to do this very basic workflow with one call (appointment.start OR appointment.requestedPeriod in a certain time period).

Jenni Syed (Dec 02 2019 at 16:28):

Which seems unfortunate

Jenni Syed (Dec 02 2019 at 16:29):

If both were populated, I would expect it to qualify if one qualified for range... I think. :) Since we were hoping for something like the equivalent "OR" query above