Patient is one of the most commonly used resource types in FHIR. For most use cases a Patient resource sits at the center of a spider’s web of interconnected resources.
Most of these resources refer back to the patient as the subject. In some cases the patient itself links outward — to a doctor, to a hospital or a clinic, to another patient resource.
The FHIR Bundle below contains four connected resources that combined make up a working Patient resource. It’s a good starting point if you’re working with patients.
The single Bundle creates the following:
- A core Patient resource
- A connected Practitioner resource (the patient’s doctor)
- An Organization (the hospital who owns the patient record)
- A duplicate Patient resource that was created during an earlier emergency admission
Edit the resources in the Bundle as required. Populate or remove elements to meet your use case. All requests inside the Bundle are PUT requests, which means duplicate resources will not be created. Re-running the Bundle will always update the existing resources.
As with all FHIR Bundles, it should be se sent as a POST request to your FHIR server.
Patient Bundle
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