Stream: patient administration WG
Topic: Scheduling Capacity
Grahame Grieve (Nov 29 2019 at 09:22):
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59100247/fhir-resource-needed-for-capacity-handling
Martin Grundberg (Dec 17 2019 at 18:37):
This is an interesting area!
I would really like this issue to be incorporated into R5: https://jira.hl7.org/browse/FHIR-22687. We need to be able to associate Slots with Services, and then allocate resource requirements (Practitoner, Locations, Equipment...) to them, as well as allocate resources to the slots.
When it comes to the use case in the link, and the suggested solution it is a bit tricky. The question is about capacity for a clinic while the answer refers to a Schedule for a Practitioner. The answer maps well to what I am used to, you get free slots from a practitioner's schedule. But what is a clinic in FHIR? This distinction between clinic and practioner schedules caused us some headache when implementing our EHR in the UK where a clinic was seen as something distinct from a practitioner, run by a consultant together with multiple registrars and we were used to Schedules being for individual practitioners (or other resources such as equipment or locations).
Brian Postlethwaite (Dec 29 2019 at 10:08):
Slots are associated with schedules, and they can be associated with healthcare service resources, which are service types. Appointments are the connection to actual services to patients.
Brian Postlethwaite (Dec 29 2019 at 10:08):
Which you decide to use in your scheduling system depends on where you track, and who you expose it to.
Brian Postlethwaite (Dec 29 2019 at 10:09):
Some types of services don't advertise who the practitioner is, and you just get a service appt. But other s do expose the practitioner.
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