kingmanzhang
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4 years ago I don't know an easy way to implement searching by phenotype in FHIR. The functionality is a long term goal, but will require an extensive amount of work to make it happen. For example, HPO terminology needs to go to FHIR, and there needs to be successful stories to show why searching by phenotype is clinically useful. Neither is there at the present. The app fulfills its goal that it is a SMART on FHIR app to demo LOINC 2 HPO transformation. When we have more successful stories to demonstrate the value, maybe we can start to host a FHIR server, populate with test data, and demo the value of searching by phenotype.
The text in the header is easy to miss. Needs to be more Plug-and-Play whether hyperlink (eg. https://hpo.jax.org/app/ or button eg. https://alpha.monarchinitiative.org/)
Moreover, searching by patient is the least interesting form of what the LOINC2HPO makes possible. We should be able to search by phenotype, preferably one shared by a bunch of patients. Ultimately this should be possible using autocomplete, however, for now, some hardcoded examples (prepopulated per above) would be fine.