HealthcareService FHIR Resource Proposal
This page documents a Pending FHIR Resource Proposal
Contents
- 1 HealthcareService
- 1.1 Owning committee name
- 1.2 Contributing or Reviewing Work Groups
- 1.3 FHIR Resource Development Project Insight ID
- 1.4 Scope of coverage
- 1.5 RIM scope
- 1.6 Resource appropriateness
- 1.7 Expected implementations
- 1.8 Content sources
- 1.9 Example Scenarios
- 1.10 Resource Relationships
- 1.11 Timelines
- 1.12 gForge Users
HealthcareService
Owning committee name
Contributing or Reviewing Work Groups
FHIR Resource Development Project Insight ID
pending
Scope of coverage
A HealthcareService Resource provides detailed information about a healthcare service that is provided by an organization at a location (which may be virtual), and its typical characteristics.
Note: This is not
RIM scope
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Resource appropriateness
This resource contains content that is often exposed on an organizations website to help consumers (and their personal care providers by proxy) to locate appropriate services which meet their needs.
This same content is also stored inside an organizations internal systems describing their own internal services, and also the services provided by external organization(s) to which they refer for external services, or receive referrals from.
Currently the extraction/update of this information between systems is manual or proprietary and the desire for this to be standardized and easier to expose is highly desirable.
Expected implementations
This resource is likely to be implemented by applications with Service Directories:
- Externally exposed
- Internally describing internal/externally provided services
- Patient Administration Systems
- National/Regional/HIE Service Directory Systems
Content sources
The sources for information related to this service we will be consulting with the existing OMG ServD Standard, and the HL7 v2 and v3 messages and models.
Example Scenarios
A Government Body that exposes a directory of service data (e.g. http://www.nhsd.com.au/) would provides its service information publicly. This would be accessible both as a website, and also as a service that can be interrogated by "apps" to re-present this information for specific audiences (e.g. http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/)
A Healthcare organization wanting to publish their service data for their consumers (e.g. https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/health/care/consumer/locate-our-services/doctors-and-locations/)
A hospital wants to keep its internal list of organizations that it regularly sends referral information to up to date with the hours and service offerings up to date without having to manually update and enter their information.
A claims processing system wants to ensure that the codes that can be claimed for a specific service are well defined (needs to be clarified).
Resource Relationships
This resource is expected to have references to Location, Organization, Practitioner.
Timelines
We expect that this resource will be ready for inclusion in the next Ballot (expecting September 2014).
gForge Users
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