Stream: Cancer Interoperability
Topic: Cancer stages representation in FHIR
Rafael Pérez Luna (Oct 29 2020 at 18:02):
Hi all, this is my first message in the community, I hope I'm posting the question in the right stream. I'm involved in a project that needs to track and show the different cancer stages a patient has been through. It seems that the Condition resource does not include any field for that. From your point of view, what is the best way of accomplishing this?
Lloyd McKenzie (Oct 29 2020 at 18:30):
The Condition will convey the 'current' stage. If you want to see past stages, you'd need to look at the 'history' of that Condition instance.
Rafael Pérez Luna (Oct 30 2020 at 11:07):
Thanks Lloyd, but I have not a clear view on how resource's 'history' should be handled. I mean, is it possible as per the standard specification to query the FHIR server for a historical condition/stage for a resource? I think I haven't seen that option before.
Lloyd McKenzie (Oct 30 2020 at 16:21):
If the server supports it, you can retrieve the history of any resource. Details are in the spec here: https://build.fhir.org/http#history
Rafael Pérez Luna (Nov 02 2020 at 10:42):
Thanks Lloyd! Will take a look at that
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