Stream: implementers
Topic: How to identify source of data for current FHIR endpoint
Luis Maas (Mar 27 2018 at 14:52):
I am looking for a way to identify the source of the data of a FHIR endpoint when the URI or SSL info isn't sufficient, e.g. multi-tenancy deployments. I'm talking about which health care organization is providing the data that gets served up when someone else might be running the server.
The CapabilityStatement.publisher definition doesn't quite match. The "organization or individual primarily responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of the capability statement" is not necessarily the organization associated with the data, plus it is a string rather than a Ref(Org|...)
The Endpoint.managingOrganization is the right concept but is not directly applicable ("This is not a description of details of the current system, as found in CapabilityStatement, but of another (potentially external) system.").
The Provenance concept doesn't seem to be applicable for "the whole endpoint".
Thoughts? Perhaps a managingOrganization element could be added to the CapabilityStatement resource?
Lloyd McKenzie (Mar 27 2018 at 16:25):
In R4, we'll have Resource.source which may meet your need.
Grahame Grieve (Mar 27 2018 at 18:59):
no that would be on the instance, not a metadata layer declaration
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