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What type of FHIR resource records an intervention

The FHIR specification has a number of resources:

http://hl7.org/fhir/2018May/resourcelist.html

Suppose a doctor:

  • recommended bedrest for a patient or:
  • recommended daily exercise

how would these things be recorded in FHIR (which resource type)? I don't see 'PatientOrder', 'PatientRecommendation', 'PatientIntervention', etc...

Solution

  • Your choices are CarePlan or ServiceRequest.

    Note FHIR versioning: You should look at either http://hl7.org/fhir (for the current official release - STU3) or http://build.fhir.org (for the draft of the next release - R4). The 2018May was a frozen snapshot for ballot but won't be supported by any implementations.