Encounter Resource

Encounter is an FHIR resource that is used to represent an Interaction between a patient and healthcare provider(s) for the purpose of providing healthcare services or assessing the health status of a patient. Encounter FHIR resources are mapped to both OpenMrs Encounter and Visit Objects.

Supported Elements

The following properties are supported by the OpenMrs FHIR Module:

Encounter.id
Encounter.status
Encounter.subject
Encounter.participant
Encounter.location

OpenMRS ↔ FHIR Mapping

OpenMrs Data Model	FHIR Resource Element

OpenMrs Data Model	FHIR Resource Element
`Encounter.uuid`	`Encounter.id`
`Encounter.status`	`Always return Encounter.EncounterStatus.UNKNOWN`
`Encounter.patient`	`Encounter.subject`
`Encounter.participant`	`Encounter.encounterProvider`
`Encounter.location`	`Encounter.location`

Available Restful Endpoints

Note: placeholder "{release}" below must be replaced by the FHIR Release - currently "R3" and "R4" are implemented. See more on the FHIR Release support page.

GET

URL	Description

URL	Description
`/ws/fhir2/{release}/Encounter/{uuid}`	Gets a specific encounter
`/ws/fhir2/{release}/Encounter?patient.identifier={string}`	Gets encounters by patient identifier