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Example Provenance/ex-patient-merged (XML)

Responsible Owner: Security Work GroupStandards Status: InformativeCompartments: Device, Group, Patient, Practitioner, RelatedPerson

Raw XML (canonical form + also see XML Format Specification)

Example of using Provenance for a Patient Merge. (id = "ex-patient-merged")

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<Provenance xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="ex-patient-merged"/> 
  <target> 
    <reference value="Patient/example-merge-survivor"/> 
  </target> 
  <target> 
    <reference value="Patient/example-merge-subsumed"/> 
  </target> 
  <target> 
    <reference value="Observation/body-height-merged"/> 
  </target> 
  <recorded value="2024-06-01T19:00:00Z"/> 
  <authorization/>  
  <why value="Merge Patient Records that were matched by SSN and confirmed by review, with the
   data linked to the non-surviving patient is also fixed up to point at the surviving
   patient."/> 
  <activity> 
    <coding> 
      <system value="http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-ActReason"/> 
      <code value="MDATA"/> 
    </coding> 
  </activity> 
  <patient> 
    <reference value="Patient/example-merge-survivor"/> 
  </patient> 
  <agent> 
    <type> 
      <coding> 
        <system value="http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/provenance-participant-type"/> 
        <code value="author"/> 
      </coding> 
    </type> 
    <who> 
      <reference value="http://example.org/Practitioner/ex-practitioner"/> 
    </who> 
  </agent> 
  <entity> 
    <role value="removal"/> 
    <what> 
      <reference value="Patient/example-merge-subsumed"/> 
      <identifier> 
        <system value="http://example.org/mrn"/> 
        <value value="MRN-002"/> 
      </identifier> 
      <display value="Removed Duplicate Patient Record"/> 
    </what> 
  </entity> 
  <entity> 
    <role value="revision"/> 
    <what> 
      <reference value="Patient/example-merge-survivor"/> 
      <identifier> 
        <system value="http://example.org/mrn"/> 
        <value value="MRN-001"/> 
      </identifier> 
      <display value="Surviving Patient Record after Merge"/> 
    </what> 
  </entity> 
  <entity> 
    <role value="revision"/> 
    <what> 
      <reference value="Observation/body-height-merged"/> 
      <display value="Body Height Observation from previous Patient is fixed to point at the surviving
       Patient after Merge"/> 
    </what> 
  </entity> 
</Provenance> 

Usage note: every effort has been made to ensure that the examples are correct and useful, but they are not a normative part of the specification.