how to store location lat, long with patient creation using FHIR R4 resources

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saranraj Rasu · Oct 29, 2019

Hi,

I am new to FHIR resources here i need to store patient current location with patient resource but location resource does not linked with patient. I need help this. In FHIR R4 resources having separate i implemented successfully in my project but i am suffered how to link location and patient. I fount resources from https://www.hl7.org/fhir/resourcelist.html

My Code implemented by nodejs with typescript language here i added graphql instead of rest

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Raj Singh · Oct 29, 2019

I agree with your finding that FHIR does not allow a patient to have a location, only an address. I would consider this a shortcoming in the FHIR spec. Maybe make a suggestion here: https://confluence.hl7.org/display/FHIR/Resource+Proposals.

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score 0 · Answer 1 · 2019-10-29T11:21:42-04:00

Thanks for ans Raj. What is use of proposal and i need one my concept is patient does not come hospital he/she is in home itself. practitioner will monitor when patient will go critical position by near by practitioner. So here we need lat/long with patient can you help this?. How we manage

score 0 · Answer 2 · 2019-10-29T15:52:06-04:00

Raj Singh · Oct 29, 2019

Sorry I don't have a good answer for you using FHIR if you don't have an address for the patients.

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