Stream: ibm
Topic: FHIR Search Modifiers
guokun zhang (Nov 18 2020 at 11:16):
Dear IBM FHIR team,
right now, only a subset of the spec-defined search modifiers are supported by IBM FHIR server (https://ibm.github.io/FHIR/Conformance/#search-modifiers). We are now working in a consortium project in Germany and are trying to use IBM FHIR server. It will be very nice that many as possible search modifiers, such as ":text", ":not", ":above", ":below" etc., are available in IBM fhir server.
Related "ask for feature" issue has been created on Git Hub (https://github.com/IBM/FHIR/issues/1522).
I would like to kindly ask whether these modifiers will be available soon?
Lee Surprenant (Nov 19 2020 at 13:10):
@guokun zhang thanks for the well-written and well-thought-out feature request. Unfortunately, our team is pretty heads-down on other efforts right now and so I'm not sure when we'll get to this one.
I would say that :text and :not are really quite different from :above and :below in that the latter requires deeper terminology services.
Based on that, I'd recommend splitting :above and :below into a separate issue. If you don't mind, I can turn the one you opened into an "Epic" (a capability that ZehHub layers on top of github issues) and then open 3 issues below it:
- support for
:not(token-only) - support for
:text(token-only) - support for
:aboveand:below(token-only)
I'm not sure if it will help use get to them or not, but at least it will be less intimidating to approach / try to squeeze in if we can focus on one at-a-time.
Lee Surprenant (Nov 19 2020 at 13:11):
Also, it could help to have a more focused conversation on how to implement a given modifier in case someone from your team would like to try their hand at it (with our guidance).
guokun zhang (Nov 20 2020 at 00:14):
@Lee Surprenant Hi, thank you for your quick reply! And thank you for opening the Epics. It will be great if we can have :not and :text firstly implemented. It is a good suggestion that someone from our team will have a try. But right now, I just cannot tell whether and what our team is able to contribute. We will discuss internally and will let you know.
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