Encounter REST Endpoints
Description
This topic describes information for the Encounter resource.
Overview
The Encounter resource provides admissions or visits during which health care services were provided to a patient. An encounter has a class to distinguish between different health care settings such as inpatient, outpatient, emergency, and so on.
Soarian Clinicals supports a read-only Application Programming Interface (API). This API accepts GET
and POST
based search and GET
based read interactions. The response represents the most current information about the patient that is charted in Soarian Clinicals at the time of the query.
Note:
The examples provided here are non-normative and replaying them in the public sandbox is not guaranteed to yield the results shown on the site.Error: The common Client Errors (for more information, see unresolvable-reference.html) and OperationOutcomes may be returned.
The search results include the following fields if they contain values:
Terminology Bindings
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Description: The type of encounter.
Details: CPT
System:
https://www.ama-assn.org/go/cpt
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Description: Role of participant in encounter.
Details: ParticipantType
System:
https://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-ParticipationType
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Description: Reason the encounter takes place.
Details: ParticipantType
System:
https://hl7.org/fhir/sid/icd-9-cm and http://hl7.org/fhir/sid/icd-10-cm
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Encounter.hospitalization.dischargeDisposition
Description: Discharge Disposition.
Details: Category or kind of location after discharge
System:
https://www.nubc.org/patient-discharge
- Get a list of encounters
- Method: getPath:
/Encounter
- Get an encounter by ID
- Method: getPath:
/Encounter/{ID}