FHIR R4 Symptoms Implementation Guide
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FHIR R4 Symptoms Implementation Guide, published by HL7 International / Clinical Interoperability Council. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 0.1.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/fhir-symptoms-ig/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

CapabilityStatement: Symptom System Capabilities

Official URL: http://hl7.org/fhir/uv/symptoms/CapabilityStatement/SymptomCapabilities Version: 0.1.0
Standards status: Trial-use Maturity Level: 1 Computable Name: SymptomsSystem

Capabilities required for a system exchanging symptoms data.

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Symptom System Capabilities

  • Implementation Guide Version: 0.1.0
  • FHIR Version: 4.0.1
  • Supported Formats: json, xml
  • Published on: 2025-01-01
  • Published by: HL7 International / Clinical Interoperability Council

Note to Implementers: FHIR Capabilities

Any FHIR capability may be 'allowed' by the system unless explicitly marked as 'SHALL NOT'. A few items are marked as MAY in the Implementation Guide to highlight their potential relevance to the use case.

FHIR RESTful Capabilities

REST Configuration: 1

Mode: client

Capabilities by Resource/Profile

Summary

The summary table lists the resources that are part of this configuration, and for each resource it lists:

  • The relevant profiles (if any)
  • The interactions supported by each resource (Read, Search, Update, and Create, are always shown, while VRead, Patch, Delete, History on Instance, or History on Type are only present if at least one of the resources has support for them.
  • The required, recommended, and some optional search parameters (if any).
  • The linked resources enabled for _include
  • The other resources enabled for _revinclude
  • The operations on the resource (if any)
Resource TypeProfileRSUCSearches_include_revincludeOperations
ObservationSupported Profiles
  Symptom Observation		yyyycode, patient, date, value-concept
Resource Conformance: supported Observation
Core FHIR Resource
Observation
Reference Policy
Interaction summary
  • Supports search-type, read, create, update.

Supported Profiles

Symptom Observation

Search Parameters
ConformanceParameterTypeDocumentation
SHALLcodetoken
SHALLpatientreference
SHALLdatedate
SHALLvalue-concepttoken
 

REST Configuration: 2

Mode: server

Capabilities by Resource/Profile

Summary

The summary table lists the resources that are part of this configuration, and for each resource it lists:

  • The relevant profiles (if any)
  • The interactions supported by each resource (Read, Search, Update, and Create, are always shown, while VRead, Patch, Delete, History on Instance, or History on Type are only present if at least one of the resources has support for them.
  • The required, recommended, and some optional search parameters (if any).
  • The linked resources enabled for _include
  • The other resources enabled for _revinclude
  • The operations on the resource (if any)
Resource TypeProfileRSUCSearches_include_revincludeOperations
ObservationSupported Profiles
  Symptom Observation		yyyycode, patient, date, value-concept
Resource Conformance: supported Observation
Core FHIR Resource
Observation
Reference Policy
Interaction summary
  • Supports search-type, read, create, update.

Supported Profiles

Symptom Observation

Search Parameters
ConformanceParameterTypeDocumentation
SHALLcodetoken
SHALLpatientreference
SHALLdatedate
SHALLvalue-concepttoken