FHIR R4 Communication API

Overview

This asset is a component of MuleSoft Accelerator for Healthcare.

MuleSoft Accelerator for Healthcare enables healthcare providers to unlock critical patient data to build a patient 360 within Salesforce Health Cloud, faster and easier than ever before. The solution includes pre-built APIs, connectors, integration templates, and prescriptive end-to-end reference architecture to bring patient demographics information and COVID-19 test results from any EHR into Health Cloud using HL7 V2 or FHIR standards.

The solution also provides a library of United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) and FHIR R4 resources to help healthcare developers adhere to interoperability needs and jumpstart the development of healthcare digital transformation initiatives.

Use case covered

Communication is one of the event resources in the FHIR workflow specification.

This resource is a record of a communication even if it is planned or has failed. A communication is a conveyance of information from one entity, a sender, to another entity, a receiver. The sender and receivers may be patients, practitioners, related persons, organizations, or devices. Communication use cases include:

• A reminder or alert delivered to a responsible provider
• A recorded notification from the nurse to the on-call physician (or any other specified person) that a patient's temperature exceeds a value
• A notification to a public health agency of a patient presenting with a communicable disease reportable to the public health agency
• Patient educational material sent by a provider to a patient
• Unable to deliver lab results to ordering physician

Non-patient specific communication use cases may include:

• A nurse call from a hall bathroom
• Advisory for battery service from a pump

This API uses FHIR R4 Communication Library.

More information about FHIR R4 Communication specification can be found here.