Release 5 Preview #3

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Observation-example-eye-color.json

Orders and Observations Work GroupMaturity Level: N/AStandards Status: InformativeCompartments: Device, Encounter, Patient, Practitioner, RelatedPerson

Raw JSON (canonical form + also see JSON Format Specification)

Example of a very simple personal characteristic observation

{
  "resourceType": "Observation",
  "id": "eye-color",
  "text": {
    "status": "generated",
    "div": "<div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><p><b>Generated Narrative</b></p><p><b>id</b>: eye-color</p><p/><p><b>code</b>: <span>eye color</span></p><p><b>subject</b>: <a>Generated Summary: id: example; Medical record number: 12345 (USUAL); active; Peter James Chalmers (OFFICIAL), Jim , Peter James Windsor (MAIDEN); -unknown-(HOME), ph: (03) 5555 6473(WORK), ph: (03) 3410 5613(MOBILE), ph: (03) 5555 8834(OLD); gender: male; birthDate: 1974-12-25; </a></p><p><b>effective</b>: 2016-05-18</p><p><b>value</b>: blue</p></div>"
  },
  "status": "final",
  "code": {
    "text": "eye color"
  },
  "subject": {
    "reference": "Patient/example"
  },
  "effectiveDateTime": "2016-05-18",
  "valueString": "blue"
}

Usage note: every effort has been made to ensure that the examples are correct and useful, but they are not a normative part of the specification.