The FHIR STU3 Encounter resource describes an interaction between a patient and healthcare provider(s) for the purpose of providing healthcare service(s) or assessing the health status of a patient.

FHIR Resource: Encounter <https://www.hl7.org/fhir/encounter.html>

Supported Attributes

Name	Comment
type
subject	Patient
status
period
reason
diagnosis
participant
location
<https://www.healthgorilla.com/fhir/StructureDefinition/record-recorder>	Recorder (Participant)

https://api.healthgorilla.com/fhir/Encounter

FHIR Operations

The following operations are currently supported:

1. Read

HTTP Request	Method	Action
/Encounter/`{ID}`	GET	Retrieve Encounter resource by ID

2. Search

HTTP Request	Method	Action
/Encounter?[parameter=`{value}`]	GET	Retrieve Encounter resources by the specified search criteria

Parameters:

Key	Type	Description
patient	Reference	Patient Identifier
date	Date	Date of Encounter (searches against Encounter.period)
_lastUpdated	Date
_offset	Number
_count	Number

Examples

2.1 Retrieve encounters by patient

https://api.healthgorilla.com/fhir/Encounter?patient=8063965523692105bfc35def

2.2 Search records updated since March 2019

https://api.healthgorilla.com/fhir/Encounter?_lastUpdated=gt2019-03&_offset=0&_count=5

2.3 Retrieve records for the given patient updated in 2018

https://api.healthgorilla.com/fhir/Encounter?patient=8063965523692105bfc35def&_lastUpdated=2018

3. Create

HTTP Request	Method	Action
/Encounter	POST	Creates Encounter resource

The following attributes are required:

Name	Details
subject
type
status

4. Update

HTTP Request	Method	Action
/Encounter/`{ID}`	PUT	Updates Encounter resource

The following attributes are immutable:

Name	Details
subject
type
recorder

5. Delete

HTTP Request	Method	Action
/Encounter/`{ID}`	DELETE	Deletes Encounter resource