Question: Clinical Documents in FHIR

Dec 2, 2014

Question:

Nice to see so many articles on FHIR to understand this new technology for interoperability. I have a very basic and silly question. I want to understand i would like to transfer whole Clinical Document from one client to another using FHIR. Since in FHIR everything is being referred to Resource i am not able to find out the relation among them so that i can store it as a single record. and what is the mechanism to update individual Resources inside the Record. If possible please share some sample and case study. Thanks a ton in advance.

Answer:

There’s multiple things that “transfer” could mean. If you mean “transfer” in the XDS sense, of establishing a common registry/repository of documents, then you want DocumentReference (see the XDS Profile). This is the technical basis of the forthcoming MHD profile from IHE.

If you mean, some kind of “message” in a v2 push based sense, there isn’t a predefined approach, since no one has been asking for this.