Specimen REST Endpoints

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Specimen

This topic describes information for the Specimen resource.

Overview

Note:

The FHIR API endpoints described below are currently pending production deployment for electronic health record (EHR) environments. Developers are welcome and encouraged to develop against the specifications in anticipation of production availability, which will be announced at a later date.

The Specimen resource provides information related to any sample to be used for diagnostic and environmental testing. The Specimen resource is used for gathering, maintaining, and processing the specimen, and determining where the specimen originated.

Profile Support

This resource supports the US Core Specimen Profile from the HL7 FHIR US Core Implementation Guide STU 6.1.0.

Note:

The examples provided here are nonnormative and replaying them in the public sandbox is not guaranteed to yield the results shown on the site.

Returned Fields

Element	Type
type	CodeableConcept
subject	Reference Patient Location Device

Terminology Bindings

Element	Description	Details
Specimen.type	A code to identify the type of the specimen.	SNOMED CT

Specimen

The operations from the Specimen category.

Get a list of specimens

Method: get

Path: /Specimen

Get a specimen by ID

Method: get

Path: /Specimen/{id}