Patient Demographic Query
| Type | Use Description | Suggested Standard |
|---|---|---|
| Resource | The Patient Demographics Query (PDQm) Profile defines a lightweight RESTful interface to a patient demographics supplier leveraging technologies readily available to applications and lightweight browser based applications. | IHE PDQm |
A lightweight RESTful interface to a patient demographics supplier leveraging technologies readily available to mobile applications and lightweight browser based applications.
The following list provides a few examples of how this may be used:
- A health portal securely exposing demographics data to browser-based plugins
- Medical devices which need to access patient demographic information
- Mobile devices used by physicians (example bedside eCharts) which need to establish patient context by scanning a bracelet
- Web based EHR/EMR applications which wish to provide dynamic updates of patient demographic information such as a non-postback search, additional demographic detail, etc.
- Any low resource application which exposes patient demographic search functionality
- Any application using the Sharing Clinical Documents to access documents may use
Patient Demographic Queryto find an appropriate patient identifier. - Any application using the Query Patient Care Data to access care records may use
Patient Demographic Queryto find an appropriate patient identifier.
Description
A list of IHE PDQm recommended search parameters can be found ITI-78 Search Parameters. A practitioner searching for a a patient via NHS or CHI Number would use the following query.
NHS Number - GET /Patient?identifier=https://fhir.nhs.uk/Id/nhs-number|9876543210
CHI Number - GET /Patient?identifier=urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.2.1.3.2.4.16.53|9876543210
