Stream: implementers
Topic: Provenance vs linkage
John Moehrke (Jun 28 2016 at 20:27):
@Brian Postlethwaite you created GF#10184 on Provenance vs linkage. Yet I have no idea what you mean by linkage?
Brian Postlethwaite (Jun 28 2016 at 20:31):
There is a new Linkage resource that you may not have seen, was more for @Lloyd McKenzie to put extra details in as they added in this new resource. The use case I noted in the document, some have considered using Linkage (http://hl7-fhir.github.io/linkage.html)
I'm considering using linkage to indicate that these 2 records are the same (a local and a remote one) Where-as the provenance says I got it from that system/person.
Just looking for Guidance in the spec to say something about the relationship between the 2 resources.
Lloyd McKenzie (Jun 28 2016 at 20:38):
Provenance captures information a bout a particular create/update operation on one or more resources. Linkage allows you to say that two resource instances represent the same real-world business object. Provenance *can* indicate that a new resource instance is a copy of or derived from some other reference, so there can be a bit of overlap, but in general, they're very different things.
Brian Postlethwaite (Jun 28 2016 at 21:10):
That's all I wanted included in the spec in the scope and usage section(s?).
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