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.

ObservationDefinition

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>

COVID19DetectionOfAntibody

Code Description System Valid Coded ValueSet
871552002 Detection of SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) antibody http://snomed.info/sct covid-19-detection-of-antibody

ObservationDefinition
{
"resourceType": "ObservationDefinition",
"id": "snomed-871552002",
"code": {
"coding": [
{
"system": "http://snomed.info/sct",
"code": "871552002",
"display": "Detection of SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) antibody"
}
]
},
"validCodedValueSet": {
"reference": "https://fhir.nhs.uk/ValueSet/covid-19-detection-of-antibody"
}
}
<ObservationDefinition xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
<id value="snomed-871552002" />
<code>
<coding>
<system value="http://snomed.info/sct" />
<code value="871552002" />
<display value="Detection of SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) antibody" />
</coding>
</code>
<validCodedValueSet>
<reference value="https://fhir.nhs.uk/ValueSet/covid-19-detection-of-antibody" />
</validCodedValueSet>
</ObservationDefinition>

COVID19DetectionOfAntigen

Code Description System Valid Coded ValueSet
871553007 Detection of SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) antigen http://snomed.info/sct covid-19-detection-of-antibody

ObservationDefinition
{
"resourceType": "ObservationDefinition",
"id": "snomed-871553007",
"code": {
"coding": [
{
"system": "http://snomed.info/sct",
"code": "871553007",
"display": "Detection of SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) antigen"
}
]
},
"validCodedValueSet": {
"reference": "https://fhir.nhs.uk/ValueSet/covid-19-detection-of-antigen"
}
}
<ObservationDefinition xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
<id value="snomed-871553007" />
<code>
<coding>
<system value="http://snomed.info/sct" />
<code value="871553007" />
<display value="Detection of SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) antigen" />
</coding>
</code>
<validCodedValueSet>
<reference value="https://fhir.nhs.uk/ValueSet/covid-19-detection-of-antigen" />
</validCodedValueSet>
</ObservationDefinition>

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