Stream: implementers
Topic: vital data about patients
Emre Avsar (Jul 20 2017 at 13:22):
hi there, i'm currently working on an administration GUI for patients, where I use the Patient resource. This works fine. Now I wanted to add some vital data like current weight and height of the patient. Where should I ideally put these Observation objects into and reference to the patient?
The observations can be updated / set within a group of observations.
Is http://hl7.org/fhir/observation.html#10.1.4.1 DiagnosticReport and DiagnosticReport.result this the one to go? Or do you guys have another recommendation?
thanks
Emre Avsar (Jul 20 2017 at 13:25):
Or maybe only using the Procedure resource for this?
Emre Avsar (Jul 20 2017 at 13:26):
And the last alternative I see is just create a bunch of Observations and refer to the patient and handle it separatly
Lloyd McKenzie (Jul 20 2017 at 13:41):
You'll definitely have a bunch of Observations that will each refer to the Patient. If you want to have some sort of filtered set or grouper, then DiagnosticReport would give you that. But if you don't need a grouper, no need to introduce overhead
Emre Avsar (Jul 20 2017 at 13:43):
I don't really need a grouper. So I'll go for the easiest solution with list of observations created at once with reference to the patient. thanks @Lloyd McKenzie
Eric Haas (Jul 20 2017 at 23:53):
Takes look at the fhir vitals profile for how to do this.
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