FHIR R4 CommunicationRequest 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

CommunicationRequest is one of the request resources in the FHIR workflow specification.

This resource is a record of a request for a communication to be performed. A communication is a conveyance of information from one entity, a sender, to another entity, a receiver. The requester requests the sender to send the payload to the recipient. The sender and receivers may be patients, practitioners, related persons, organizations, and devices. Uses of communication request include:

• A computer-based decision-support system requesting a reminder or alert be delivered to a responsible provider
• A physician requesting notification from the nurse if a patient's temperature exceeds a value
• A monitoring system or a provider requesting a staff member or department to notify a public health agency of a patient presenting with a communicable disease reportable to the public health agency
• A computer-based decision-support system proposes to send educational material to a patient

This API uses FHIR R4 CommunicationRequest Library.

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