The FHIR STU3 InstantMessage resource is used to describe a message between persons and organizations in HealthGorilla Application. A message is a composite object that contains a sender and recipients, a subject, a message body and attachments. Users may send and receive messages from physicians, practice staff, patients, and healthcare organizations.

An InstantMessage is designed to describe HealthGorilla Secure Messages and should not be used for other purposes.

An InstantMessage can contain DiagnosticReport, RequestGroup, DocumentReference, ReferralRequest as attachments.

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

FHIR Operations

The following operations are currently supported:

1. Read

HTTP Request	Method	Action
/InstantMessage/{ID}?_format=json	GET	Get message by ID

2. Search

HTTP Request	Method	Action
/InstantMessage?[parameter={value}]	GET	Returns DirectMessage resources matching the filter specified as a parameter

Parameters:

Key	Type	Description
direction	Token	OUT for outgoing messages and IN for incoming
identifier	Token	InstantMessage identifier
_lastUpdated	Date	Return InstantMessage resources modified after the specified date. E.g. gt2019-09-05

Examples

2.1 Retrieve all incoming messages received starting from 09/05/2019

https://api.healthgorilla.com/fhir/InstantMessage?
direction=IN
&_lastUpdated=gt2019-09-05
&_format=json

2.2 Retrieve InstantMessage resource with identifier of 35f3d35d12aa8d93dd9953c0

https://api.healthgorilla.com/fhir/InstantMessage?
identifier=https://www.healthgorilla.com|35f3d35d12aa8d93dd9953c0
&_format=json