Stream: implementers
Topic: Pathology results
Dave Barnet (Jul 30 2018 at 15:59):
I'm looking at possibly replacing a pathology results message with a FHIR based one, but with minimal disruption. The current message contains a header, then for each patient for a given Practice the results per patient (there may be multiple results per patients depending on what has been ordered). In FHIR I was looking at a Bundle, MessageHeader with the MessageHeader.focus pointing out to DiagnosticReports per patient (with Patient details, Observations & Specimen details hanging off each DiagnosticReport). Does this sound like a reasonable approach? or should the MessageHeader.focus point to the Patient records (that then point to the DiagnosticReports etc.)?
Lloyd McKenzie (Jul 30 2018 at 16:23):
I think pointing to DiagnosticReport is the right call. The 'event' that triggers the message is related to the pathology results, not the patient.
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