Stream: implementers
Topic: Operation to promote a (Related)Person to a Patient
Marco Descher (Feb 13 2019 at 13:55):
Consider the following steps:
1. I created a patient (A) which is not of full age and requires a legal guardian (LG)
2. In order to represent the LG of A, I create the LG as Person (by adding it as a RelatedPerson)
3. Some time later LG (which is currently represented as Person) becomes a Patient on the given resource
What is the correct approach to "promote" the Person representing LG to a Patient by itself?
I think of something like
1. Searching the Person Resource for LG
2. Promoting LG with some kind of operation to a Patient
Yunwei Wang (Feb 13 2019 at 15:05):
You can create Patient (B) and a Person resource and then add Pateint B and LG to Person.target
Lloyd McKenzie (Feb 13 2019 at 16:22):
Person is a set of shared demographics. You'd create a Patient resource, clone the demographic information from it and then update the Person to link to that resource too.
Brian Postlethwaite (Apr 06 2019 at 23:18):
You don't even need a person for this use case. When the RelatedPerson also becomes a patient, you just create the patient resource, and fill in the patient.link reference to the RelatedPerson instance of the same individual.
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