Thoughts and comments on the HL7 FHIR standard, from a FHIR Evangelist
May 27, 2021 1 Comment
So there have been a few comments on the series thus far (a good thing!) through a number of channels, so I thought I’d quickly address them before moving on to the implementation discussion.
May 1, 2020 11 Comments
As readers will know, I’m a big fan of FHIR Shorthand as a way of making it much easier to create Implementation Guides and examples in conjunction with the IG publisher. In fact, I’m coming to the conclusion that all systems that expose FHIR API’s should have an IG that describes it (along with the CapabilityStatement resource of course) – and unless you have experience with creating StructureDefinitions directly, then FSH – and SUSHI – is the way to go.
Of course, creating IG’s is still not easy (it’s just easier) so I thought it would be a good idea to write about common patterns that you might want to express – and serve as a reminder for me when I forget! Read more of this post
February 10, 2020 6 Comments
I was trying to remember how to represent family relationships in FHIR – to record that one person is related to another, maybe a mother / daughter relationship, assuming that each person is already represented by a Patient resource. I asked my good friend Brian Postlethwaite who kindly didn’t say “I’ve told you this before”, but rather pointed me at the RelatedPerson resource and the example in the spec.
For example, to create a link from mother to child, what you do is to create the 2 Patient resources that represent the mother and the child, then create a RelatedPerson resource that directly references the child (the ‘to’ of the relationship) through the RelatedPerson.patient element, and then use the mothers Patient.link to refer to that RelatedPerson (the ‘from’). In effect both the mothers Patient and the RelatedPerson resources both have information about the mother (hopefully not contradictory) and it’s the RelatedPerson.patient & RelatedPerson.relationship that provides the relationship to the child. The Patient.link then has a type of ‘seealso’ to the Related person.
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