Stream: implementers
Topic: ServicePlans?
Matt Berg (Feb 11 2021 at 13:31):
Hi All - excited to join this community.
Matt Berg (Feb 11 2021 at 13:33):
We do work that is focused a lot on scheduling the service delivery of practitioners. We've been using FHIR tasking to enable vaccination campaigns, indoor residual spraying (IRS) for malaria control, etc. In this context, borrowing form the CarePlan idea we came up with something called a Plan (considering renaming this to ServicePlan) that allows you to define activities and associated tasks for a practitioner to complete. These tasks can be applied to patients or locations in our data model.
Matt Berg (Feb 11 2021 at 13:35):
I will share our data model around this. My main question though is the idea of scheduling the work of practitioners something currently handled in FHIR? The focus here is more on the orchestration of service delivery by providers and not so much from a patient centric / CarePlan approach. I hope this makes sense. Any insights on this would be very helpful. Thank you.
René Spronk (Feb 11 2021 at 13:42):
A List of Tasks ? Why would this need to be a new resource ?
Matt Berg (Feb 11 2021 at 14:19):
We use the plan to create the activities that provide the rules for how tasks are created. These tasks can be picked up to multiple practitioners. We evaluate new questionairereponses against the activity in the plans to generate new tasks. Eg. If a patient is registered assign a blood test, etc.
Matt Berg (Feb 11 2021 at 14:20):
Other common examples are - assign a task to visit every household (location) in a specific area and create a task to do a specific service (Eg. provide a service to a household member in that location). We support tasks directly to locations too. Eg. mosquito point collection where no patients are involved.
Lloyd McKenzie (Feb 11 2021 at 15:34):
I don't know that there's a whole lot of work done in this space, but that doesn't mean FHIR couldn't be used for it. CarePlan and Task seem to be appropriate choices.
Matt Berg (Feb 11 2021 at 16:24):
The question we have about CarePlans is the target is a patient and not the provider.
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