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Patient

Usage

Patient resource covers data about patients involved in specimen collection. MedNAIS clients could use it to display the following information:

  • full name
  • photo
  • contacts

The resource does not require to reference any additional resources.

Coding systems

Global identifier

{
  "system": "https://samplify.org/docs/fhir/dstu3/Patient/identifier/system#/uuid",
  "value": "<uuid>"
}

Local or temporary identifier

{
  "system": "https://samplify.org/docs/fhir/dstu3/Patient/identifier/system#/code",
  "value": "<string>" // might be unique-per-day easy-to-remember or same-as-order-id code
}

Examples

Patient
{
  "resourceType": "Patient",
  "id": "52",
  "identifier": [
    // Required identifier
    {
      "system": "https://samplify.org/docs/fhir/dstu3/Patient/identifier/system#/uuid",
      "value": "6cf88953-e39d-47fa-8438-6622d656a213"
    }
  ],
  "name": [
    {
      "use": "official",
      "family": "Labadie",
      "given": [
        "Danny"
      ],
      "prefix": [
        "Mrs."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "telecom": [
    {
      "system": "email",
      "value": "[email protected]"
    }
  ],
  "photo": [
    // Used for fetching patient's avatar from client side (1)
    {
      "url": "https://placeimg.com/640/480"
    }
  ]
}