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Patient-close Event

Page standards status: Trial-use Maturity Level: 4

Event-name: Patient-close

eventMaturity 3 - Considered

Workflow

User closed the patient's medical record. A previously opened and in context patient is no longer open nor in context.

Context

Key Cardinality Type Description
patient 1..1 resource FHIR Patient resource describing the patient previously in context that is being closed.

The following profiles provide guidance as to which resource attributes should be present and considerations as to how each attribute should be valued in a Patient close request:

Other attributes of the Patient resource (or resource extensions) may be present in the provided resource; however, attributes not called out in the profile are not required by the FHIRcast standard.

Examples

{
  "timestamp": "2023-04-01T010:50:22.16",
  "id": "112d5571-10e6-4912-8fd8-322da7926ae8",
  "event": {
    "hub.topic": "fdb2f928-5546-4f52-87a0-0648e9ded065",
    "hub.event": "Patient-close",
    "context": [
      {
        "key": "patient",
        "resource": {
          "resourceType": "Patient",
          "id": "503824b8-fe8c-4227-b061-7181ba6c3926",
          "identifier" : [
            {
              "use" : "official",
              "type" : {
                "coding" : [
                  {
                    "system" : "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v2-0203",
                    "code" : "MR"
                  }
                ]
              },
              "system": "urn:oid:2.999.16.840.1.113883.19.5",
              "value": "4438001",
              "assigner": {
                "reference": "Organization/a92ac1be-fb34-49c1-be58-10928bd271cc",
                "display": "My Healthcare Provider"
              }
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

Change Log

Version Description
1.0 Initial Release
1.1 Deprecate encounter element in favor of dedicated encounter-close event
1.2 Reference context resource profiles and update example to be compliant with the profiles