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5.10 Resource Alert - Content

Prospective warnings of potential issues when providing care to the patient.

5.10.1 Scope and Usage

The Alert resource provides a single interface for managing clinical and administrative facts that need to be brought to the attention of users of clinical systems. Examples can include many things. Patient's posing particular risks (falls, physical violence), patient's needing special accomodations (hard of hearing, use easy-open caps), administrative concerns (verify postal address, pre-payment required) or any other situation that needs to be brought to attention within the context of a particular workflow. (The workflow relevant to the issue can be identified by the category element.)

Usually, resources specific to particular types of issues (health conditions, allergies, active medications will be used to communicate those issues. However, in some cases, particularly important information (a latex or severe food allergy) migt be highlighted as an Alert as well as the more typical resource.

5.10.2 Resource Content

Alert (Resource)Identifier assigned to the alert for external use (outside the FHIR environment)identifier : Identifier 0..*Allows an alert to be divided into different categories like clinical, administrative etccategory : CodeableConcept 0..1Supports basic workflowstatus : code 1..1 <<Indicates whether this alert is active and needs to be displayed to a user, or whether it is no longer needed or entered in errorAlertStatus>>The person who this alert concernssubject : Resource(Patient) 1..1The person or device that created the alertauthor : Resource(Practitioner|Patient|Device) 0..1The textual component of the alert to display to the usernote : string 1..1 
<Alert xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir"> doco
 <!-- from Resource: extension, modifierExtension, language, text, and contained -->
 <identifier><!-- 0..* Identifier Business identifier --></identifier>
 <category><!-- 0..1 CodeableConcept Clinical, administrative, etc. --></category>
 <status value="[code]"/><!-- 1..1 active | inactive | entered in error -->
 <subject><!-- 1..1 Resource(Patient) Who is alert about? --></subject>
 <author><!-- 0..1 Resource(Practitioner|Patient|Device) Alert creator --></author>
 <note value="[string]"/><!-- 1..1 Text of alert -->
</Alert>

Alternate definitions: Schema/Schematron, Resource Profile

5.10.2.1 Terminology Bindings

PathDefinitionTypeReference
Alert.status Indicates whether this alert is active and needs to be displayed to a user, or whether it is no longer needed or entered in errorFixedhttp://hl7.org/fhir/alert-status

The Alert resource is sometimes known as "patient notes" and MAY be used to warn of issues such as:

The Alert resource should not be used for Allergies / Adverse Reactions (use AllergyIntolerance, or to record Alarms raised by devices attached to the patient (DSTU - under development).

5.10.3 Search Parameters

Search parameters for this resource. The standard parameters also apply. See Searching for more information about searching in REST, messaging, and services.

NameTypeDescriptionPaths
_idtokenThe logical resource id associated with the resource (must be supported by all servers)
_languagetokenThe language of the resource
subjectreferenceThe identity of a subject to list alerts forAlert.subject
(Patient)
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