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Topic: Groups with large memberships

Alex McManus (Nov 10 2021 at 22:13):

Hi all,
We are working on bulk export and are trying to leverage the Group resource for large patient populations. Is there a good way to implement membership based Group resources for really large patient populations? I'm thinking of scenarios like a particular organization's patient list, or all the patients enrolled by a particular payer. The Read operation on a Group like this will return an unmanageable payload size if members is populated. So are there plans to add/support some sort of resource continuation or paginated expand-type operation for really large resources?

Thanks!

Michele Mottini (Nov 10 2021 at 22:49):

See https://chat.fhir.org/#narrow/stream/179166-implementers/topic/Operations.20to.20manage.20big.20List.20and.20Group.20resources

Dan Gottlieb (Nov 11 2021 at 14:05):

Users who don't want to have to page through results could also get a list of group members using the Bulk API with a request like /Group/[id]/$export?_type=Patient&_elements=id

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