DiagnosticReport
Introduction
This resource is an event resource from a FHIR workflow perspective - see Workflow.
DiagnosticReport resource is normally used for exposing any information which is exposed as a report. DiagnosticReport resource provides a clinical or workflow context for a set of observations and the Observation resource is referenced by DiagnosticReport to represent laboratory, imaging, and other clinical and diagnostic data to form a complete report. This profile is created based on DiagnosticReport standard profile in FHIR.
Use cases for the DiagnosticReport resource include:
- Show lab report requests/answers sent related to chemistry
- Show radiology lab report related information
- Show microbiology lab report related information
Intended Use
This profile is used to expose information that has the final results in a report. The profiles derived can be used for exposing information such as radiology reports, microbiology report, lab reports etc. When using, a new profile can be created by limiting fields based on the requirement from the defined core profile.
Profile Hierarchy
The following picture shows the hierarchy of the DiagnosticReport profiles implemented. It also shows how they are derived from the Standard FHIR profiles. The links to the profiles derived can be found at the bottom.