Kenya Emergency FHIR Implementation Guide
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Kenya Emergency FHIR Implementation Guide, published by Digital Health Agency (DHA), Kenya. 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/IntelliSOFT-Consulting/Kenya-Emmergency-FHIR-IG/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

: Emergency Clinical Acuity - XML Representation

Active as of 2026-07-20

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<CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="em-clinical-acuity"/>
  <text>
    <status value="generated"/>
    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p class="res-header-id"><b>Generated Narrative: CodeSystem em-clinical-acuity</b></p><a name="em-clinical-acuity"> </a><a name="hcem-clinical-acuity"> </a><p>This case-sensitive code system <code>https://nshr-uat.sha.go.ke/fhir/CodeSystem/em-clinical-acuity</code> defines the following codes:</p><table class="codes"><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap"><b>Code</b></td><td><b>Display</b></td><td><b>Definition</b></td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">red<a name="em-clinical-acuity-red"> </a></td><td>Red - Immediate</td><td>The patient requires immediate life-saving intervention.</td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">orange<a name="em-clinical-acuity-orange"> </a></td><td>Orange - Very urgent</td><td>The patient requires very urgent clinical intervention.</td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">yellow<a name="em-clinical-acuity-yellow"> </a></td><td>Yellow - Urgent</td><td>The patient requires urgent clinical intervention.</td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">green<a name="em-clinical-acuity-green"> </a></td><td>Green - Routine</td><td>The patient is stable and can safely wait for clinical intervention.</td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">blue<a name="em-clinical-acuity-blue"> </a></td><td>Blue - Non-urgent</td><td>The patient has a non-urgent condition.</td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">black<a name="em-clinical-acuity-black"> </a></td><td>Black - Deceased or expectant</td><td>The patient is deceased or classified as expectant under the applicable mass-casualty protocol.</td></tr><tr><td style="white-space:nowrap">unknown<a name="em-clinical-acuity-unknown"> </a></td><td>Unknown</td><td>Clinical acuity has not been established.</td></tr></table></div>
  </text>
  <url value="https://nshr-uat.sha.go.ke/fhir/CodeSystem/em-clinical-acuity"/>
  <version value="0.1.0"/>
  <name value="EMClinicalAcuityCS"/>
  <title value="Emergency Clinical Acuity"/>
  <status value="active"/>
  <experimental value="false"/>
  <date value="2026-07-20T11:03:05+00:00"/>
  <publisher value="Digital Health Agency (DHA), Kenya"/>
  <contact>
    <name value="Digital Health Agency (DHA), Kenya"/>
    <telecom>
      <system value="url"/>
      <value value="https://dha.go.ke"/>
    </telecom>
    <telecom>
      <system value="email"/>
      <value value="info@dha.go.ke"/>
    </telecom>
  </contact>
  <contact>
    <name value="Digital Health Agency Kenya – FHIR Team"/>
    <telecom>
      <system value="email"/>
      <value value="info@dha.go.ke"/>
      <use value="work"/>
    </telecom>
    <telecom>
      <system value="url"/>
      <value value="https://dha.go.ke"/>
      <use value="work"/>
    </telecom>
  </contact>
  <description
               value="Clinical acuity assigned by an emergency practitioner after patient
assessment. This terminology is distinct from dispatch priority."/>
  <jurisdiction>
    <coding>
      <system value="urn:iso:std:iso:3166"/>
      <code value="KE"/>
      <display value="Kenya"/>
    </coding>
  </jurisdiction>
  <caseSensitive value="true"/>
  <content value="complete"/>
  <count value="7"/>
  <concept>
    <code value="red"/>
    <display value="Red - Immediate"/>
    <definition
                value="The patient requires immediate life-saving intervention."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="orange"/>
    <display value="Orange - Very urgent"/>
    <definition
                value="The patient requires very urgent clinical intervention."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="yellow"/>
    <display value="Yellow - Urgent"/>
    <definition value="The patient requires urgent clinical intervention."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="green"/>
    <display value="Green - Routine"/>
    <definition
                value="The patient is stable and can safely wait for clinical intervention."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="blue"/>
    <display value="Blue - Non-urgent"/>
    <definition value="The patient has a non-urgent condition."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="black"/>
    <display value="Black - Deceased or expectant"/>
    <definition
                value="The patient is deceased or classified as expectant under the applicable mass-casualty protocol."/>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="unknown"/>
    <display value="Unknown"/>
    <definition value="Clinical acuity has not been established."/>
  </concept>
</CodeSystem>