Stream: implementers
Topic: ServiceRequest and the need for a physical meeting
Levin Løssfelt (Jun 07 2021 at 14:29):
We have a situation where patients are contacting their general practitioners through digital channels. We want to implement a triage solution to sort these inquiries. The triage solution will ask the patient several questions and should produce a PDF containing all the answers from the patient and a set of parameters. The parameters are level of urgency, the risk of communicable disease infection, and the need for a physical appointment (to take a blood sample for instance).
So far we've decided that ServiceRequest is the best fit for this.
We will use the field Priority for the urgency level, DocumentReference for the PDF, and Condition for the risk of communicable disease.
We're however unsure about how to represent the need for a physical appointment.
I was considering Observation because of this sentence: "Observation is intended for capturing measurements and subjective point-in-time assessments". To my mind, the need for a physical appointment could be considered a subjective point-in-time assessment, but I would like some feedback on this. Is this a reasonable use of the Observation resource? Is there perhaps another more fitting resource? Should we consider instead making an extension to ServiceRequest to express the need for a physical appointment?
Any input would be appreciated.
cc: @Kenneth Myhra
David Pyke (Jun 07 2021 at 14:36):
Using an extension on ServiceRequest (something like a boolean isVirtual) would solve your issue.
Levin Løssfelt (Jun 07 2021 at 16:47):
Thank you for the reply.
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