Slot FHIR Resource Proposal

Slot

Owning committee name

Patient Administration

Contributing or Reviewing Work Groups

• "None"

FHIR Resource Development Project Insight ID

pending

Scope of coverage

The slot is used to cover:

• an interval of time whereby the referenced availability resource's may be booked
• what type of appointment can be booked in the interval of time (may over-rule the availabilities restrictions)
• The status of the slot (booked/available/overbooked)

The slot does not cover:

• Recurrences
• the total window of time in the "planning horizon" (This is covered by the Availability resource)

Expected implementations

This resource is expected to be implemented by community clinics, general practice and specialist software solutions to publish their availability information to take appointments directly from users external to the organization providing the information.

Content sources

The slot resource has some overlap with the iCal standard, the mapping to this standard will also be in scope of the resource.

Example Scenarios

A Physio-Therapy clinic wants to publish a 2 month planning horizon for where appointments can be booked. Each available period of time will have a slot resource created describing that time slot; what it can be used for, and the availability status of the slot. If the clinic had repeating intervals, these must be expanded into each slot and created on the fhir server. This removes the need for the slot's recurrence information to be concerned with handling time zones across time intervals.

Resource Relationships

This Slot Resource will reference the Availability that it "belongs" to, and will be referenced by any Appointment Resources that have been booked into this Slot.

Timelines

Given the progress to date, we expect that this resource will be ready for inclusion in the next Ballot (expecting September 2014) the resource has already undergone a great deal of review in PA over the last 6 months.

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