Stream: Orders and Observation WG
Topic: Defining and storing Individual referenceRange for patients
Ingvar Sørlien (Oct 21 2020 at 09:23):
EDIT: As I understand, this should be posted in the Implementers stream, and not in the WG stream. I have now cross posted it, and cannot find a way to delete it from this stream. Sorry for the inconvenience.
We are working on a solution for self-management plan for patients - a concept for empowering patients to take actions based on their actual condition.
In this concept we need to define and store individual refrence values for patients. E.g. for COPD patients, the patient should take specific actions if the saturation is below a certain threshold/reference value. The value needs to be individual to the patient, since the patient will have actual values that are way out of any standard reference ranges.
We are currently struggling to find in which FHIR-resource this kind of information should be best stored. Any input on this?
In an actual observation, I would imagine that this information is a natural part of the ReferenceRange. But we are here looking for a concept to store the "individual referenceRange" for the patient.
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