Implementation Guide viewer

July 25, 2017 8 Comments

Just a short post to describe some updates to the Implementation Guide viewer (which I’ve renamed from ‘profile viewer’ as it was described in this post.) Thanks to some comments in the FHIR chat from my friend John Moehrke I’ve done some work on the ‘Graph visualizer’ component of the viewer.

The idea is to make it easier to understand the contents of an Implementation Guide, and the relationships between them. Currently limited to Profiles, Extensions & ValueSets – but no reason why it couldn’t be extended (or won’t be 🙂 ).

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‘Extending’ a ValueSet in a profile

July 20, 2017 Leave a comment

In the last post we talked about ValueSets and CodeSystems – and in particular how the ValueSet can be thought of as the set of possible values from one or more CodeSystems for a particular element in a given context.

As you know, the spec provides ValueSets and bindings for all coded elements, and a common need when profiling is likely to be to ‘extend’ the set of possible values – take the contents already in the ValueSet and add others. What’s the best pattern to do that?

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‘Default’ namespaces in HL7 v2

July 20, 2017 3 Comments

So I had an interesting question this week about coded values when importing data from HL7 v2 messages into a data store, and then subsequently exporting them in FHIR interfaces.

The specific question was what should the ‘default’ namespace be when the namespace is not specified in the v2 message?

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