Substance FHIR Resource Proposal

Substance

Owning committee name

Orders & Observations WG

Interested Work Groups

• Anatomic Pathology
• Clinical Genomics
• Imaging Integration
• Pharmacy
• Public Health and Emergency Response

FHIR Resource Development Project Insight ID

952

Scope of coverage

DEFINITION (SUBSTANCE): Any material is a substance.

This resource will cover data elements, structures and relationships between the data elements required to uniquely define and identify substances and specified substances within medicinal products or used for medicinal purposes, dietary supplements, food and feed additives and cosmetics. The project will further provide references to other standards and external terminological resources as applicable to this standard.

RIM scope

• • Entity: Material (EntityClass="MAT")

Resource appropriateness

In healthcare, substances are used to treat patients, substances are analyzed for diagnostic, treatment, and research, subjects come in contact with certain substance thereby causing a need for healthcare, and so forth.

Expected implementations

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Content sources

• HL7 v3 Laboratory Standard - Normative
• HL7 v3 IDMP Standard
• HL7 v2.x

Resource Relationships

• Order
• OrderResponse ?
• DiagnosticReport
• ImagingStudy ?
• Prescription
• Supply

Timelines

• Vote by WG (Ready for ballot): July 2013
• Ballot: September 2013

gForge Users

• Lorraine Constable
• Patrick Loyd