Details
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Change Request
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Resolution: Not Persuasive with Modification
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Medium
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FHIR Core (FHIR)
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R5
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Orders & Observations
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BiologicallyDerivedProduct
Device
DeviceDefinition
Medication
NutritionProduct -
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Marti Velezis / Jose Costa Teixeira: 12-0-0
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Clarification
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Compatible, substantive
Description
While implementing global supply and management of products (e.g. vaccines), organizations like WHO expect to support Product-related functionalities on FHIR
- Product delivery and tracking
- Product catalogs
The Product pattern is missing some useful features (e.g. common search parameters) and is adopted differently across resources: NutritionProduct seems a good match with the Product Pattern, but Medication/MedicationKnowledge and Device/DeviceDefinition have different approaches.
Additionally, both from a Catalog and Supply/Tracking perspective, it would be best to have a Product resource, not only a model. The Product resource could be used instead of the specific resources inside the Supply Chain.
It is important to define common search parameters for searching (track & trace) as well invariants that are common across products.
An alignment with GS1 product model is also important.
To align with GS1 (Transactional)TradeItem product structure, ideally this Product resource would have:
- A generic Key-value pair for characteristics, like the NutritionProduct
- A generic key-value pair for related Items, for relations like "requires.." or "contains".