Observation

This topic describes information for the Observation resource.

To interact with the REST endpoints in the Observation resource, see Observation.

Overview

The Observation resource provides measurements or simple assertions about a patient that are useful for establishing baselines or trends, monitoring a patient's progress, and establishing diagnoses. Most observations are simple name and value pair assertions, but some observations, such as blood pressure, group other observations together logically. Examples of common observations include laboratory results (blood sugar and hemoglobin), vital signs (temperature and blood pressure), personal characteristics (height and weight), and social history (tobacco use and birth sex). Also, see the DiagnosticReport resource for pathology, radiology, and microbiology reports.

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 errors and OperationOutcomes may be returned.

The search results include the following fields if they contain values:

• Observation ID

• Status

• Category

• Code

• Subject (Patient)

• Encounter

• Effective [x]

  • Effective date time

  • Effective period

• Issued

• Component

  • Component code

  • Component value [x]

    • valueCodeableConcept

    • valueDateTime

    • valueInteger

    • valueString

    • valueQuantity

  • Component data absent reason

• Data absent reason

• Interpretation

• Note

• Member Observations

• Derived From

Terminology Bindings

• Observation.category

  Description: Codes for high level observation categories.

  Details: Observation Category Codes

  System: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/observation-category

• Observation.code

  Description: Codes identifying names of simple observations.

  • Details: LOINC

    System: http://loinc.org

  • Details: SNOMED CT

    System: http://snomed.info/sct

  • Details: CPT

    System: https://www.ama-assn.org/go/cpt

• Observation.Component.code

  Description: Codes identifying names of simple observations.

  • Details: LOINC

    System: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-ParticipationType

  • Details: SNOMED CT

    System: http://snomed.info/sct

• Observation.component.dataAbsentReason

  Description: Codes for reasons data is absent.

  Details: v4 data absentreason

  System: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/data-absent-reason

• Observation.component.valueCodeableConcept

  Description: Codes for value of the observation.

  • Details: LOINC

    System: http://loinc.org

  • Details: SNOMED CT

    System: http://snomed.info/sct

  • Details: CPT

    System: https://www.ama-assn.org/go/cpt

• Observation.interpretation

  Description: Codes identifying interpretations of observations.

  Details: v3 Interpretation Codes

  System: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-ObservationInterpretation

Extensions

• valueAttachment: This extension's URL is http://hl7.org/fhir/5.0/StructureDefinition/extension-Observation.valueAttachment. This extension is defined and referenced from the newer version of Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). See Extensions for converting between versions and R5 Snapshot of Observation.value for more information.