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Tayyab
Tayyab

Reputation: 1217

Enclosing multiple fhir resource in a single resource

I am currently working to standardize communication between a lab and clinic server. I am working on a basic workflow that returns a DiagnosticReport type FHIR resource from the clinic server. According to FHIR only references of Observations are passed as part of the DiagnosticReport and a new hit to the clinic server is to be made to fetch every actual Observation type FHIR resource. The question is that is there a way to make the Observation resources part of the DiagnosticReport resource and save the extra hits?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 151

Answers (2)

Lloyd McKenzie
Lloyd McKenzie

Reputation: 6793

Contained resources aren't intended as a packaging mechanism, but rather to hold information that can't stand alone. Containment means that the data isn't independently accessible. So _include is a much better approach.

Upvotes: 3

Grahame Grieve
Grahame Grieve

Reputation: 3586

You can, by using contained resources. But there's a much better option - use the _include option to retrieve all the observations with the DiagnosticReport in the first place

Upvotes: 3

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