Stream: smart
Topic: fhirUser for a SMART on FHIR app within an EHR
Lakshmi Bhamidipati (Jul 15 2021 at 15:31):
Hello,
If a SMART on FHIR app is launched within an EHR and the user that is logged into the EHR is not a provider; the user is say a nurse (associated with a provider), what should the fhirUser in an openId connect token be set to? According to the documentation - " To learn more about the user, the app should treat the fhirUser claim as the URL of a FHIR resource representing the current user. This will be a resource of type Patient, Practitioner, RelatedPerson, or Person". Since the user is not a patient, should we set the fhirUser to the URL of the Practitioner associated with the user in a visit/encounter? Thanks.
Josh Mandel (Jul 15 2021 at 16:28):
FHIR uses the Practitioner days type to represent all kinds of clinical staff. It's very broad; see https://hl7.org/fhir/practitioner.html#scope for background
Lakshmi Bhamidipati (Jul 15 2021 at 16:54):
Thank you for the clarification
Isaac Vetter (Aug 13 2021 at 19:55):
notably, even non-clinical staff, from Josh's link:
IT personnel merging or unmerging patient records
Last updated: Apr 12 2022 at 19:14 UTC
