Stream: implementers
Topic: Merging records
Jose Costa Teixeira (Mar 24 2020 at 10:00):
Is there any general guidance on merging records, the impact of that merge, and any FHIR recipes for that?
Jose Costa Teixeira (Mar 24 2020 at 10:04):
I guess the Patient merging is a common case, but I was looking at merging allergy records A1 and A2 for patient 1. What happens with statuses, any references...?
René Spronk (Mar 24 2020 at 13:21):
That's why we have List. Each and every practitioner or context could create their own version of the truth (i.e. their own version of the current allergy list). Never delete any clinical data (unless captured erroneously). Declaring one of those lists to be 'Truest of them all' is a governance issue, not an IT issue.
Jose Costa Teixeira (Mar 24 2020 at 13:45):
Yes. My use case was on a record level:
AllergyIntolerance1 is submitted by GP1 with reactions, and GP2 updates the status by posting a new version of the resource.
Does this mean that GP2 is reasserting the reaction?
Jose Costa Teixeira (Mar 24 2020 at 13:45):
(we can use List and Composition for record governance, but that is another topic)
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