Resources

In order to encode the Lung Diagnosis Pathway decision points, the FHIR Workflow Module was ued to share information, state or relationsships between systems. This proof on concept is also based on the used of a shared health care record for the patient. While not all resources represented in the the figure below have been used, it presents a highl level overview of the various resources and their realtionships in the context of work-flow execution.

The resources that were used were:

PlanDefinition - defines the interrelationships of steps and the rules around their execution

ActivityDefinition - defines an activity to be performed as a single step

CarePlans - used as a context holder for current and future treatement state

ServiceRequests - record of a request for a procedure or diagnostic or other service to be planned, proposed, or performed

Observation - contains data that can be used to trigger next activity relevant to patient record

DocumentReference - Used to contain any related non-FHIR artifacts that may have been collected data related to patient