Stream: bulk data
Topic: Patient Bulk Export
G G (Mar 08 2021 at 20:53):
Hey all, currently implementing Patient Bulk Export, and I'm wondering if I am missing the point of Patient bulk export? It feels as though the use case is completely covered by system level export. Is it essentially the same, except the only _types allowed are ones which contain a patient compartment? Am I missing something glaring?
Cheers,
Josh Mandel (Mar 08 2021 at 20:56):
Patient export is specific to exporting Patient data (it's like Group export where the group is... everyone), and it lets the server decide what associated resources need to be included (e.g., to meet a use case like US Core). Client-specified types on a system-level export can't achieve that.
G G (Mar 08 2021 at 20:58):
Right, so if i have Observation/1 which has a subject, and Observation/2 which does _not_ have a subject, for whatever reason, does Observation/2 get included in the export?
Josh Mandel (Mar 08 2021 at 20:59):
That's the crux of it. Observation/2 would appear in a System-level export, and would not appear in a Patient-level export.
G G (Mar 08 2021 at 21:09):
Gotcha, this is the distinction I was looking for. Thanks!
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