Stream: implementers
Topic: Family Members
Daniel Tam (Mar 24 2022 at 22:37):
Is there a FHIR resource to track family members? And are people using this for kids and family access?
In my use case, we want to be able to associate children with a parent, when both the children and parents are patients/members of our organization. We might use this to make it easier for parents to manage their children's medical information -- kind of like how Kaiser Permanente grants family access to allow parents to manage their children's appointments, or how I can manage my dad's appointments for him with my own logon.
Richard Townley-O'Neill (Mar 24 2022 at 23:46):
Elliot Silver (Mar 24 2022 at 23:51):
Richard Townley-O'Neill said:
I believe person is only used for alternate identities of the same person (e.g. tying together that they have two patient records, and are also a practitioner). I suspect what @Daniel Tam is looking for is RelatedPerson (and from there, perhaps to Person).
Richard Townley-O'Neill (Mar 24 2022 at 23:53):
Yes.
Person is useful for saying that a Patient and a RelatedPerson are the same person.
Lloyd McKenzie (Mar 25 2022 at 02:19):
More specifically, Person is useful when there's a need to maintain shared demographics for a human being across all of their Patient, RelatedPerson and/or Practitioner records.
Richard Townley-O'Neill (Mar 25 2022 at 05:34):
You could have the same medical record/patient identifier in a person's Patient resources and their RelatedPerson resources and use that to identify them as the same person without using any Person resources.
Brian Postlethwaite (Mar 29 2022 at 08:34):
Mixing access control and clinical record there too.
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