Currently the expected actions for ITI-78 and ITI-119 require that all Patient Resources returned by the Patient Demographics Supplier conform to the PDQm Patient Profile.
Are these requirements reasonable? While Patient Demographics Consumers SHOULD be robust in handling non-conformant Resources in the response, the intent of this requirement is to require that any Resources produced by the Patient Demographics Supplier are reasonably interoperable.
Furthermore, we have decided not to derive from IPA Patient at this time.
It is unclear if HL7 intends for IPA to generically cover all use cases for Patient data, or if IPA is limited to use cases of Patients accessing their own data. Discussion on this matter can be reviewed on HL7's FHIR Zulip Chat.
Currently the expected actions for ITI-78 and ITI-119 require that all Patient Resources returned by the Patient Demographics Supplier conform to the PDQm Patient Profile.
Are these requirements reasonable? While Patient Demographics Consumers SHOULD be robust in handling non-conformant Resources in the response, the intent of this requirement is to require that any Resources produced by the Patient Demographics Supplier are reasonably interoperable.
Furthermore, we have decided not to derive from IPA Patient at this time.
It is unclear if HL7 intends for IPA to generically cover all use cases for Patient data, or if IPA is limited to use cases of Patients accessing their own data. Discussion on this matter can be reviewed on HL7's FHIR Zulip Chat.