Encounter Resource

Encounter is an FHIR resource that is used to represent an Interaction between a patient and healthcare provider(s)  for the purpose of providing healthcare services or assessing the health status of a patient. Encounter FHIR resources are mapped to both OpenMrs Encounter and Visit Objects.

Supported Elements

The following properties are supported by the OpenMrs FHIR Module:

• Encounter.id
• Encounter.status
• Encounter.subject
• Encounter.participant
• Encounter.location

OpenMRS ↔ FHIR Mapping

Encounter.uuid

Encounter.id

Encounter.status

Always return Encounter.EncounterStatus.UNKNOWN

Encounter.patient

Encounter.subject

Encounter.participant

Encounter.encounterProvider

Encounter.location

Encounter.location

Available Restful Endpoints

Note: placeholder "{release}" below must be replaced by the FHIR Release - currently "R3" and "R4" are implemented. See more on the  FHIR Release support  page.

GET

/ws/fhir2/{release}/Encounter/{uuid}

/ws/fhir2/{release}/Encounter?patient.identifier={string}