Details
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Change Request
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Resolution: Persuasive with Modification
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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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DocumentReference
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John Moehrke / Rob Hausam: 8-0-5
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Enhancement
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Compatible, substantive
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R5
Description
Discussion on zulip around how to do a plaintext search of DocumentReference content has come to the realization that the generic search parameter _content could be used to search the content (document bits) that are indexed by the DocumentReference resource. This use of _content should be made more clear.
Add a subsection on DocumentReference on text searching of content.
- Services may implement the _content search parameter such that it searches the DocumentReference.content.attachment.data and/or DocumentReference.content.attachment.url.
- Clients may use the _content search parameter to discover DocumentReference resources that have the searched term within their attachment
Question: Should this be expected of a server that declares (CapabilityStatement) support for _content search parameter with DocumentReference resources? Or is this extended support that should need further assertions in the CapabilityStatement?