We use Bundles to contain other resources. I want to search for bundles based on these nested resources. e.g. I have bundles that look like this:
{
"resourceType": "Bundle",
"type": "collection",
"entry": [
{
"resource": {
"resourceType": "Patient",
"identifier": [
{
"type": {
"coding": [
{
"code": "foo"
}
]
},
"value": "12345"
},
{
"type": {
"coding": [
{
"code": "bar"
}
]
},
"value": "abcde"
}
]
}
},
{
"resource": {
"resourceType": "SomeOtherResource"
}
}
]
}
I want to find all bundles which have Patient with "bar" == "abcde". There will be many such bundles and each Patient will have many identifiers other than "bar"
I've looked through https://www.hl7.org/fhir/search.html, but all the examples I find assume that (e.g.) Patient is at the top level and I can search with [base]/Patient?..., but I am looking for Bundles. I've looked through the search parameters here but those don't include any "contained" entries.
I've tried all the combinations of bundle/patient/identifier I can think of with no luck. Is this even supported?
If your Bundle is a FHIR Document or FHIR Message, you can search by chaining through the 'composition' or 'message' search parameter. Otherwise, there's no standard way to search. In general, content within a Bundle is opaque.