Stream: implementers
Topic: How to publish outage notices
John Carter (Apr 01 2020 at 01:00):
Can anyone point me to resources or examples I should be exploring if I want to publish messages on , e.g., a patient-facing portal, notifying users of a planned outage (for example, from Wednesday through Saturday, display "The system will be down between midnight and 3 AM Saturday for maintenance.")? I've looked at Subscription, which feels like part of the puzzle...
Michele Mottini (Apr 01 2020 at 01:33):
This does not seem something you would be doing using FHIR
Lloyd McKenzie (Apr 01 2020 at 02:33):
I've had a system that did this in v2. It was handled using the data structure whose equivalent in FHIR is OperationOutcome. Essentially it would be an 'information' message sent as a response to any request. Not necessarily ideal, but potentially workable.
John Carter (Apr 03 2020 at 03:47):
thanks @Michele Mottini and @Lloyd McKenzie . I will investigate OperationOutcome. I wasn't quite comfortable with the idea that FHIR wouldn't be a way to do this thing, and I've since (re-)discovered the HealthcareService.notAvailable... http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/healthcareservice-definitions.html#HealthcareService.notAvailable. That would seem to do what I want, at least for a physical practice, and I think the user of an online system could benefit from a similar kind of advertisement, so I can at least base an extension on something that already exists.
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