CommunicationRequest FHIR Resource Proposal

CommunicationRequest

Owning committee name

Clinical Quality Information Work Group

Contributing or Reviewing Work Groups

• Clinical Decision Support Workgroup

FHIR Resource Development Project Insight ID

Ken to provide

Scope of coverage

This resource is a record of a request for a communication to be performed. A communication is a conveyance of information from one entity, a sender, to another entity, a receiver. The sender and receivers may be patients, practitioners, related persons, organizations, and devices.

RIM scope

Lloyd to provide

Example Scenarios

Uses of communication request include

• A computer-based decision-support system requesting a reminder or alert be delivered to a responsible provider
• A physician requesting notification from the nurse if a patient's temperature exceeds a value
• A monitoring system or a provider requesting a staff member or department to notify a public health agency of a patient presenting with a reportable communicable disease public health agency

As indicated above the request, may represent an order that entered by a practitioner in a CPOE system as well as a proposal made by a clinical decision support system (CDSS) based on a patient's clinical record and context of care.

Resource Relationships

A communication is a conveyance of information from one entity, a sender, to another entity, a receiver. The sender and receivers may be patients, practitioners, related persons, organizations, and devices.

For additional information, please refer to the proposed resource: http://hl7-fhir.github.io/communicationrequest.html