Work
Group
Patient
Care
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This Clinical Module focuses on the FHIR Resources that represent core clinical information for a patient. The information contained in these Resources are those frequently documented, created or retrieved by healthcare providers during the course of clinical care. Resources generated during the course of diagnostic studies can be found in the Diagnostics Module , whereas the Resources related to medication ordering and administration process can be found in the Medications Module .
As an introduction to FHIR APIs and Resources, please see the Developer's Introduction or Clinical Introduction in the Overview section of the Foundation Module .
The Clinical Module covers the following resources:
FHIR Resources have a low, moderate or high levels of complexity with respect to the number of primary and child elements as well as the number of referenced Resources, found in this module and others. To better understand the relationships between Resources, we recommend beginning with the lower complexity, core Resources such as Patient , Condition , and FamilyMemberHistory before addressing a high complexity Resource such as CarePlan .
The clinical resources often represent patient-related data, and as such are susceptible to data breaching. Necessary privacy and security provision must be in place for searching and fetching this information. For more general considerations, see the Security and Privacy module .
Over
the
next
18
months,
we
will
continue
to
advance
the
resources
through
the
Maturity
Levels
through
the
process
of
development
and
testing
of
the
Resources.
We
anticipate
more
widespread
implementation
of
core
Resources
such
as
Condition.
Complex
Resources
such
as
CarePlan
are
dependent
on
the
maturation
of
its
referred
Resources
and
are
expected
to
mature
more
gradually.
The
clinical
community
will
need
to
develop
use
cases
to
test
and
further
mature
the
ServiceRequest
Resource
at
opportunities
such
as
the
Clinicians
on
FHIR
sessions
at
the
HL7
Working
Group
Meetings.