AudaciousInquiry / fhir-saner

Situation Awareness for Novel Epidemic Response (COVID-19 driven project to track resource availability)
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Clarify the logic for learning about physical location from a Group #3

Closed jmandel closed 4 years ago

jmandel commented 4 years ago

If I see a Group resource that tells me "20 ICU beds free," it'd be good to clarify the expected logic to understand:

Obviously FHIR has fields for all this stuff in Organization, Location, and other places -- but it'd be good to specify one preferred way to represent, for the purposes of this IG (and then adding info in other places, potentially more granular, is A-OK, but we'd have a common baseline).

keithboone commented 4 years ago

In a query, through valueReference to Location (assuming query supports _include), which can get you to zip code, address and geo location.

In the US, I believe that hospital location GPS data is available as a publicly available data set, I have a reference to a link from a colleague.

Yes, there should be a whole page for addressing location, just as there's a page for Group.

keithboone commented 4 years ago

After switching to MeasureReport, I think we can close this issue.