Stream: conformance
Topic: Developer notes
Lloyd McKenzie (May 18 2016 at 00:45):
In the spreadsheets for defining resources & profiles, we have the ability to capture developer notes (work group comments). That information isn't rendered in the publication, but is *extremely* useful to capture to-dos, questions about mappings or requirements, notes about committee discussion that aren't appropriate to surface in rationale, etc. However, there's no element in the StructureDefinition resource to capture that sort of information - presumably the thought is you'd just embed it in comments or something. However, it means that when using tools like Forge, there's no means of capturing this essential information. Should we add the notion of "developer note" to ElementDefinition? Should we add it to other areas in Conformance resources? Or perhaps define a standardized extension and get Forge to support it?
Grahame Grieve (May 18 2016 at 00:54):
it doesn't appear anywhere in the implementations....
Lloyd McKenzie (May 18 2016 at 01:20):
I know it doesn't appear in implementations - but it's still useful to capture when authoring artifacts - which means it needs to show up and be persisted in tools like Forge and perhaps your terminology editor
Grahame Grieve (May 18 2016 at 01:26):
sounds like an extension to me
Lloyd McKenzie (May 18 2016 at 01:29):
I'm ok with it being an extension. Is it reasonable to get that extension supported in Forge? And where all would we want it? Certainly on ElementDefinition. Would we want it directly on IG or StructureDefinition? Would it be relevant inside ValueSet and/or CodingSystem anywhere?
Grahame Grieve (May 18 2016 at 03:05):
you can ask
Grahame Grieve (May 18 2016 at 03:05):
I'd define it so it could be anywhere in a conformance resource
Lloyd McKenzie (May 18 2016 at 03:45):
Do we actually have a way of saying "anywhere under resource x"?
Grahame Grieve (May 18 2016 at 03:57):
no
Michel Rutten (May 19 2016 at 12:15):
FHIR could define an official extension on StructureDefinition, such as these:
http://hl7.org/implement/standards/fhir/structuredefinition-extensions.html
The extension would be allowed on the root StructureDefinition resource and on ExtensionDefinition components.
We could then implement out-of-the-box support for this in Forge and optionally also in simplifier.net.
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