Details
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Change Request
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Resolution: Not Persuasive
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Medium
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FHIR Core (FHIR)
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STU3
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Orders & Observations
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DeviceRequest (was DeviceUseRequest)
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Riki Merrick/Kathy Pickering: 8-0-2
Description
supportingInfo never qualifies what is being ordered. It provides additional information that may be used in fulfillment of the order - e.g. recent labs, clinical gender, height, weight, etc. If the supportingInformation were all yanked out, it wouldn't change the nature of the order at all - it would just require the filler to query the patient's record if there was additional patient information needed. If there's a need to qualify the order, that needs to be done in another element (e.g. add a bodySite element.)