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  1. FHIR Specification Feedback
  2. FHIR-20479

Clarification about subject in Encounter

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    • Icon: Change Request Change Request
    • Resolution: Persuasive
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    • FHIR Core (FHIR)
    • STU3
    • Patient Administration
    • Encounter
    • 8.11, 8.11.1, 8.11.3
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      Update the existing Resource intro sentence:

      "An interaction between a patient and healthcare provider(s) for the purpose of providing healthcare service(s) or assessing the health status of a patient."

      This sentence implies that the meeting included the patient, and will be modified to permit the encounter to also be ABOUT a patient.

      "An interaction between healthcare provider(s), and/or patient(s) for the purpose of providing healthcare service(s) or assessing the health status of patient(s)."

      The short description of the subject property will be modified from

      "The patient or group present at the encounter"

      to 

      "The patient or group related to this encounter"

      The detailed description will also include a comment that the patient may not be present.

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      Update the existing Resource intro sentence: "An interaction between a patient and healthcare provider(s) for the purpose of providing healthcare service(s) or assessing the health status of a patient." This sentence implies that the meeting included the patient, and will be modified to permit the encounter to also be ABOUT a patient. "An interaction between healthcare provider(s), and/or patient(s) for the purpose of providing healthcare service(s) or assessing the health status of patient(s)." The short description of the subject property will be modified from "The patient or group present at the encounter" to  "The patient or group related to this encounter" The detailed description will also include a comment that the patient may not be present.
    • Brian Postlethwaite/Pascal Pfiffner: 7-0-1
    • Clarification
    • Compatible, substantive
    • R5

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      A group of practioneers have a meeting about how to treat a patient. The patient is not a participant in the meeting. The encounter specification clearly states that the subject is present but Brian Postlethwaite thought a slight change of the Encounter type was in order:

      "I think that the Encounter resource is the correct one, and does follow on from an appointment that would be the planning stage which covers this also.
      Can you please log a tracker to request for clarification in the specification on how this should work."

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      https://chat.fhir.org/#narrow/stream/179166-implementers/topic/FHIR.20Community.20navigation.20help

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            brian.postlethwaite Brian Postlethwaite
            johansandblom Johan Sandblom
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