NHS England FHIR Implementation Guide (deprecated)

Important Announcement regarding this Implementation Guide
  • As of 04/10/2023, this implementation guide has been deprecated and all development on the legacy NHS England FHIR Implementation Guide assets has ceased.
  • Therefore, vendors looking to start new implementations or looking to update existing implementations should use the new NHS England Implementation Guide. Vendors continuing to implement legacy NHS England FHIR Implementation Guide based solutions do so at their own risk and on the understanding that no maintenance or support will be available.

COVID19DetectionOfVirus

Code Description System Valid Coded ValueSet
871555000 Detection of ribonucleic acid of Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 http://snomed.info/sct covid-19-detection-of-virus

ObservationDefinition
{
    "resourceType": "ObservationDefinition",
    "id": "snomed-871555000",
    "code": {
        "coding":  [
            {
                "system": "http://snomed.info/sct",
                "code": "871555000",
                "display": "Detection of ribonucleic acid of SARS-CoV-2"
            }
        ]
    },
    "validCodedValueSet": {
        "reference": "https://fhir.nhs.uk/ValueSet/covid-19-detection-of-virus"
    }
}
<ObservationDefinition xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
    <id value="snomed-871555000" />
    <code>
        <coding>
            <system value="http://snomed.info/sct" />
            <code value="871555000" />
            <display value="Detection of ribonucleic acid of SARS-CoV-2" />
        </coding>
    </code>
    <validCodedValueSet>
        <reference value="https://fhir.nhs.uk/ValueSet/covid-19-detection-of-virus" />
    </validCodedValueSet>
</ObservationDefinition>

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