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