Stream: implementers
Topic: Flag.category for devices
Tom Stanis (Sep 17 2020 at 07:03):
This seems like an easy question, which value of category should be used for flags raised by devices noticing problems with patients? Or is this an abuse of the Flag resource and there is a better way? https://www.hl7.org/fhir/valueset-flag-category.html doesn't have device as a category, but it does have device as an author.
Lloyd McKenzie (Sep 17 2020 at 14:47):
Flag tends to be for long-term things (pregnant, allergic to latex, use easy-open caps). A device that wants to send out an alert would typically do so as an Observation
Tom Stanis (Sep 17 2020 at 15:51):
This is about interpretation of a device value. Say a patient's blood pressure is < 85/35 we want to flag that this patient is hypotensive. There is certainly an observation associated with it, but it doesn't capture the interpretation.
Tom Stanis (Sep 17 2020 at 17:14):
Ok, I spent some more time looking at Observation and see what you are getting at. I can create a derived Observation with Observation.related pointing to the source.
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