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Brian Hart
Brian Hart

Reputation: 91

Sending straight key/value pairs in FHIR

I am a programmer and I am new at my company. I am trying to populate a FHIR resource with simple key/value pairs that we use to communicate with a "sister IIS" that we also write. All we need to do is to send two strings across.

But when I try to look through the FHIR spec on the appropriate resource to use, I am confused.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 260

Answers (1)

Lloyd McKenzie
Lloyd McKenzie

Reputation: 6803

Parts of this should probably be a comment, but apparently I don't rank high enough to do that.

FHIR is premised on the idea of exchanging specific "collections" of information that represent real-world business objects that have state and can reasonably be manipulated as part of a single unit of work. What you're describing doesn't seem to fit into that paradigm (though more information about the specifics of the use-case - e.g. what kinds of key/value pairs, how many are sent, how are they related - would be helpful). In theory the Observation resource can be treated as a simple name/value pair - Observation.name and Observation.value, but I'm not clear that's appropriate for your use-case

Upvotes: 1

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