Vital Signs

Introduction

The FHIR Vital Signs profile sets minimum expectations for the Observation resource to record, search and fetch the vital signs associated with a patient that include the primary vital signs plus additional measurements such as height, weight and BMI.

Read more at hl7.org/fhir about Vital signs.

Profile Hierarchy

The following image shows the hierarchy of the vital sign profiles implemented in this project. It also shows how they are derived from the Standard FHIR profiles Cambio vital signs profiles

Cambio Core Profiles:

The purpose of the Cambio core profiles is to generate a Cambio standardized structure for a generic use case. Several use case specific profiles can be derived from these core profiles. All use case specific profiles are upwards compatible. Core profiles are not implemented as API:s.