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This page is part of the FHIRcast (v3.0.0: STU3 (v3.0.0)) based on FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) R4. This is the current published version. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

Encounter-open Event

Page standards status: Trial-use Maturity Level: 4

Event-name: Encounter-open

eventMaturity 2 - Tested

Workflow

User opened patient's medical record in the context of a single encounter. The indicated encounter and its patient are now in context.

Context

Key Cardinality Type Description
encounter 1..1 resource FHIR Encounter resource describing the encounter now in context.
patient 1..1 resource FHIR Patient resource describing the patient whose encounter is now in context.

The following profiles provide guidance as to which resource attributes should be present and considerations as to how each attribute should be valued in an Encounter open request:

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

Examples

{
  "timestamp": "2023-04-01T010:54:10.23",
  "id": "c6a3e2eb-16b4-4eb8-b48b-7eb6c924919b",
  "event": {
    "hub.topic": "fdb2f928-5546-4f52-87a0-0648e9ded065",
    "hub.event": "Encounter-open",
    "context": [
      {
        "key": "encounter",
        "resource": {
          "resourceType": "Encounter",
          "id": "8cc652ba-770e-4ae1-b688-6e8e7c737438",
          "identifier": [
            {
              "use" : "official",
              "system" : "http://myhealthcare.example.com/visits",
              "value" : "r2r22345"
            }
          ],
          "status" : "unknown",
          "class" : {
            "system" : "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-ActCode",
            "code" : "AMB"
          },
          "subject": {
            "reference": "Patient/503824b8-fe8c-4227-b061-7181ba6c3926"
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "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"
              }
            }
          ],
          "name" : [
            {
              "use" : "official",
              "family" : "Smith",
              "given" : [
                "John"
              ],
              "prefix" : [
                "Dr."
              ],
              "suffix" : [
                "Jr.",
                "M.D."
              ]
            }
          ],
          "gender" : "male",
          "birthDate" : "1978-11-03"
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

Change Log

Version Description
1.0 Initial Release
1.1 Reference context resource profiles and update example to be compliant with the profiles