Appointment Management

Information

See: Core FHIR Resources Appointment, Schedule, Slot

Todo: Oridashi Profiles for Appointment, Schedule and Slot

Available Slots

• Schedules (Appointment Book) can be retrieved from FHIR interface (FHIR Schedule)
• Each FHIR Schedule is for a provider (FHIR Practitioner); there may be multiple sessions per day
• A FHIR extension defines the nominal slot period length for each Schedule
• Free/Busy slots are available (FHIR Slot)

Appointments Requiring Action

• Practice components search for requested/cancelled appointments from a cloud endpoint
• Search by:
  • Appointment.status=pending - are requests that are not confirmed yet (indicates a request)
  • Appointement.location.identifier - identifies the practice associated with the appointment request

FHIR API search request:

GET [base]/Appointment?status=pending&location.identifier=<siteid>&_include=Appointment:actor

FHIR API search response:

• Return a FHIR Bundle
• Bundle.entry will contain Appointment resources
• Appointment indicating are request structured like:

Appointment
 status=pending - indicates appointment needs attention
 start - expected visit start date/time
 end - expected visit end date/time
 slot - optional reference to a free/busy Slot resource
 comment - optional comment text (will be shown in the PMS)
 participant [0] - participant practitioner
   type=PPRF|http://hl7.org/fhir/v3/ParticipationType - coded participation (primary performer is the attending clinician) 
   actor is Practitioner - reference to Practitioner  (FHIR internal identifier) 
   required=required - coded indicates this participation in the appointment is needed
   status=needs-action - coded indicates the participation is not confirmed
 participant [1]
   type = null
   actor is Patient - reference to Patient (FHIR internal identifier) 
   required=required - coded indicates this participation in the appointment is needed
   status=accepted - coded indicates the patient intends to attend
 participant [2] 
   type = null
   actor is Location - reference to Location (FHIR internal identifier) 
   required=required- coded indicates this participation in the appointment is needed
   status=needs-action - coded indicates the participation is not confirmed

Appointment Accept/Reject

• Appointment requests retrieved from the cloud are processed
• Appointments are attempted to be made in the PMS
• Result will be accepted or declined appointment allocation

Practice adapter will create/update appointments:

FHIR add/update appointment using Oridashi-Hiasobi interface

PUT [base]/Appointment/<id>

• Patient matching can occur based on Name, Date of Birth, Gender (or other identifying information)
• Provider matching can occur based on Name, Provider Number (or other identifying information)
• Submitted appointment will be as per appointment request obtained from cloud endpoint

FHIR add/update response (success)

Appointment
 status=booked - indicates appointment has been made in PMS
 start - scheduled visit start date/time
 end - scheduled visit end date/time
 slot - optional reference to a free/busy Slot resource
 participant [0] - participant practitioner
   type=PPRF|http://hl7.org/fhir/v3/ParticipationType - coded participation (primary performer is the attending clinician) 
   actor is Practitioner - reference to Practitioner  (FHIR internal identifier) 
   required=required - coded indicates this participation in the appointment is needed
   status=accepted - coded indicates the practitioner intends to attend
 participant [1]
   type = null
   actor is Patient - reference to Patient (FHIR internal identifier) 
   required=required - coded indicates this participation in the appointment is needed
   status=accepted - coded indicates the patient intends to attend
 participant [2] 
   type = null
   actor is Location - reference to Location (FHIR internal identifier) 
   required=required- coded indicates this participation in the appointment is needed
   status=accepted - coded indicates the location is confirmed