Stream: implementers
Topic: Query hospital service availability
Nick Radov (Mar 20 2020 at 13:29):
A new use case has come up for us due to the current COVID-19 pandemic. Is there a good way to query an Organization or Location to determine the count and status of a particular HealthcareService they have at the current time? For example, let's say we as a payer want to query a hospital to ask how many ventilators or ICU beds they have total, in use now, or available to take patients. Is there a recommended way to do that?
Jose Costa Teixeira (Mar 20 2020 at 13:52):
healthcareservice could be used to say how many beds. for ventilators and masks you would use device.
Jose Costa Teixeira (Mar 20 2020 at 13:53):
in any case this is inventory and we have left it out of scope so far.
Jose Costa Teixeira (Mar 20 2020 at 13:55):
AFAIK, only OO looked at the relation between inventory and clinical. There's SupplyDelivery and SupplyRequest, but not Inventory or something similar.
Jose Costa Teixeira (Mar 20 2020 at 13:56):
if you want to forget about "quantity at hand" and just make an exhaustive list, we could use a List with HealthcareService entries.
Virginia Lorenzi (Mar 31 2020 at 06:19):
Its not like that is such an easy number to get. Not completely convinced of the benefit of the automation here.
Vassil Peytchev (Mar 31 2020 at 12:22):
This is being discussed and designed in the #Covid-19 Response stream, with the associated SANER Project
Marcelo Cabello (Apr 02 2020 at 13:25):
Hi, I'm trying setup a list of locations which perform labtest exam for covid-19. My first attempt is tie Location and HealthcareService resources, but I doubt where to setup de code of exam.
...speacialty looks like the right place...
Jose Costa Teixeira (Apr 02 2020 at 14:12):
This is being discussed and designed in the #Covid-19 Response stream, with the associated SANER Project
Jose Costa Teixeira (Apr 02 2020 at 14:13):
for the exam code, if you are instanciating HealthcareService for that, then you can use HealthcareService.type.
Jose Costa Teixeira (Apr 02 2020 at 14:14):
or specialty
Vassil Peytchev (Apr 02 2020 at 20:33):
I don't see a good place for the code of the test. Is that one of the LOINC codes? One very tenuous path could be HealthcareService --> Location <-- ActivityDefinition, where ActivityDefinition.code has the code of the test.
Maybe you need ActivityDefinition, and not HealtcareService?
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