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This page is part of the FHIRcast (v3.0.0-ballot: STU3 (v3.0.0) Ballot 1) based on FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) R4. The current version which supersedes this version is 2.0.0. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

Get Current Context

Implementer feedback is solicited on the GetCurrentContext operation.

In some situations, Subscribers may want to verify the current context. This section defines a method in which the current context can be retrieved using a GET call. The Hub responds to this GET request with the most recently communicated open event.

Hubs MAY support returning the current context of a session, as defined below.

Get Current Context Request

The requester makes an HTTP GET call to the following URL:

GET base-hub-URL/{topic}

Get Current Context Response

This method returns an object containing the current context of a topic; where the current context is the most recent *-open event according to the Subscriber’s subscription. The current context is made up of one or more “top-level” contextual resources and the type of the anchor context SHALL be in the context.type field. For example, if the current context was established using a Patient-open request the returned object will contain context.type: "Patient". If the current context was created by a DiagnosticReport-open request the returned object will contain context.type: "DiagnosticReport". If there is no context currently established, the context.type SHALL contain an empty string and the context SHALL be an empty array.

If an established context is closed without another being opened, the Hub SHALL return an empty context (which as specified above is indicated by returning an empty string for the context.type and an empty array in context). See Multi-tab Considerations for additional discussion on multiple context scenarios.

Field Optionality Type Description
context.type Required string ResourceType of the context element or an empty string if no context is currently established.
context.versionId Required string The versionId of the current context. Each time the context changes, a different versionId is generated.
context Required array The context array of the corresponding context element as was supplied in the most recent -open event or an empty array if no context is currently established.

Content Sharing Support

If a Hub supports content sharing, the Hub returns the current content in a content key in the context array. There SHALL be one and only one Bundle resource which SHALL have a type of collection. No entry in the Bundle SHALL contain a request attribute. The Bundle SHALL contain no entries if there is no content associated with the current context.

Context

Key Optionality FHIR operation to generate context Description
content REQUIRED if content sharing is supported not applicable Current content of the anchor context or a Bundle resource with no entries if no content is associated with the current context. The Bundle resource SHALL conform to the FHIRcast get current content Bundle profile.

Examples

Get Context Response Example

The following example shows a response to the get context request when the current context was created by a DiagnosticReport-open request. The response contains version “023fe970-a6d9-442f-a499-dfb71f1edba6” of the anchor context’s content which contains a single Observation resource.

{
  "context.type": "DiagnosticReport",
  "context.versionId": "023fe970-a6d9-442f-a499-dfb71f1edba6",
  "context": [
    {
      "key": "report",
      "resource": {
        "resourceType": "DiagnosticReport",
        "id": "40012366",
        "status": "unknown",
        "subject": {
          "reference": "Patient/ewUbXT9RWEbSj5wPEdgRaBw3"
        },
        "imagingStudy": [
          {
            "reference": "ImagingStudy/8i7tbu6fby5ftfbku6fniuf"
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "key": "patient",
      "resource": {
        "resourceType": "Patient",
        "id": "ewUbXT9RWEbSj5wPEdgRaBw3",
        "identifier": [
          {
            "system": "urn:oid:1.2.840.114350",
            "value": "185444"
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    {
      "key": "study",
      "resource": {
        "resourceType": "ImagingStudy",
        "description": "CHEST XRAY",
        "started": "2010-01-30T23:00:00.000Z",
        "status": "available",
        "id": "8i7tbu6fby5ftfbku6fniuf",
        "identifier": [
          {
            "type": {
              "coding": [
                {
                  "system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v2-0203",
                  "code": "ACSN"
                }
              ]
            },
            "value": "342123458"
          },
          {
            "system": "urn:dicom:uid",
            "value": "urn:oid:2.16.124.113543.6003.1154777499.38476.11982.4847614254"
          }
        ],
        "subject": {
          "reference": "Patient/ewUbXT9RWEbSj5wPEdgRaBw3"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "key": "content",
      "resource": {
        "resourceType": "Bundle",
        "id": "8i7tbu6fby5fuuey7133eh",
        "type": "collection",
        "entry": [
          {
            "resource": {
              "resourceType": "Observation",
              "id": "435098234",
              "partOf": {
                "reference": "ImagingStudy/8i7tbu6fby5ftfbku6fniuf"
              },
              "status": "preliminary",
              "subject": {
                "reference": "Patient/ewUbXT9RWEbSj5wPEdgRaBw3"
              },
              "category": {
                "system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/observation-category",
                "code": "imaging",
                "display": "Imaging"
              },
              "code": {
                "coding": [
                  {
                    "system": "http://www.radlex.org",
                    "code": "RID49690",
                    "display": "simple cyst"
                  }
                ]
              },
              "issued": "2020-09-07T15:02:03.651Z"
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}

The following example shows the returned structure when no context is established:

{
  "context.type": "",
  "context": []
}