Prescription Search Support
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Prescription Search Support, published by eHealth Platform Belgium. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 1.0.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/hl7-be/pss/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

Overview of PSS services

These are the services identified for PSS:

The Consent service is provided by the PSS system to register a user’s acceptance of the terms and conditions for PSS (or opt-out, if that is their preference).
This service accept POSTs of Consent following the Consent profile.
This service requests and stores information as described in the model.

  • The user ID is an anonymised number that uniquely identifies a professional. This way the system doesn’t ask for consent in every session.
  • The version is important for when the terms change, that the user may need to be asked to renew their consent.

The consent will have 2 provisions:

  • use system data exchange,
  • include in statistics for PSS

PSS-1 Get Diagnoses

This service asks for Diagnoses based on some provided data. The response is in the form of a Bundle with a RequestGroup containing a Task with the Conditions to be considered.

PSS-2 Get Data to Collect

This service asks for Data to be collected. The response is in the form of a Bundle with a RequestGroup containing the task indicating the Questionnaire to be filled in; This Questionnaire can be presented to the user or mapped from FHIR resources. The mapping is out of scope of the current specification.

PSS-3 Get Recommendations

This service asks for possible matching actions. The response is a Bundle with a RequestGroup containing the different options in form of Requests.

PSS-4 Give feedback

This service informs the PSS of the options accepted, refused, or overridden. It also allows informing that the user selected something different, not one of the returned options

PSS-5 Consult prior result

This is a simple request for a prior PSS ID. There are no searches possible via the FHIR interface.