Accessing lab data via FHIR – part 1
May 23, 2021 4 Comments
This will be the first post in a short series that considers a very useful interaction – accessing Laboratory data such as blood tests from a repository of data via (of course) a FHIR API. The actual repository we use doesn’t really matter – it could be a part of an EHR, or an interface that the lab exposes or it could be a standalone data repository such as a regional or National store – it’s the API that counts.
There are a number of different perspectives that we can take, of which two are:
- Accessing data about a particular person – whether by the person themselves or an authorized clinician.
- Accessing data from the perspective of the ordering clinician – e.g. all the tests they have ordered, but not yet reviewed. This would return the results belonging to multiple people.
In this post we’ll take a look at the first perspective – accessing a single person’s data. We’ll consider the clinicians perspective in a subsequent post.
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