Stream: implementers
Topic: US Core Patient Profile Required Fields
Mike Ross (Sep 10 2020 at 15:20):
Looking at the Patient Resource here: http://hl7.org/fhir/patient.html
Does the FHIR spec require any fields? The cardinality for all the fields 0..* or 0..1
A completely empty patient does not have any value. Is it up to the server to define and validate a minimum data set?
For example, the server can require US-Core Patient: https://www.hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition-us-core-patient.html
This still only defines three required fields (patient identifier, patient name, gender). It also has some supported requirements if available.
David Pyke (Sep 10 2020 at 15:21):
The base spec allows for maximum flexibility. You can profile it locally for your requirements
Mike Ross (Sep 10 2020 at 15:22):
Great. Thanks.
Lloyd McKenzie (Sep 10 2020 at 16:32):
Keep in mind that the "Patient" might be a chicken or might be being used for anonymized data submission. The use-cases for the resource are quite broad, so the constraints have to be very loose to allow that breadth of use-cases
Last updated: Apr 12 2022 at 19:14 UTC
