Notice
- Important: This guidance is under active development by NHS England and content may be added or updated on a regular basis.
- This Implementation Guide is currently in Draft and SHOULD NOT be used for development or active implementation without express direction from the NHS England Genomics Unit.
Genomics-Provenance
The Genomics Provenance SHOULD be provided alongside updates to controlled documents such as ServiceRequests and DiagnosticReports by integrated systems on any update operation to ensure auditability for any changes to resources.
The draft profile for the UK Core Provenance is provided below for completeness.
Profile url | FHIR Module | Normative Status |
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http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Provenance | HL7 International | trial-use |
Differential from Provenance
FHIR | MDS | HL7v2 |
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Constraint Profiles
Profiles indicating preferred element cardinality for use in Genomics, not to be used for validation
Additional Guidance
target
SHALL be provided. This SHOULD be a reference to the resource on the central GMS system that was updated.
"target": [ { "reference": "ServiceRequest/ServiceRequest-SavedTestOrderUpdated-Example" } ],
recorded
SHALL be provided, the date/time when the update took place.
"recorded": "2023-08-10T11:10:00Z",
reason
The reason why the update took place. If the codes provided by HL7 are not granular enough, or additional notes need to be recorded detailing the reasoning behind a change, this SHOULD be added as text to 'reason.text'.
"reason": [ { "coding": [ { "system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-ActReason", "code": "TREAT", "display": "treatment" } ], "text": "Test inappropriate for patient" } ],
agent
The user which performed the change, as identified through CIS2 authentication token.
"agent": [ { "type": { "coding": [ { "system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/provenance-participant-type", "code": "author", "display": "Author" } ] }, "who": { "reference": "PractitionerRole/PractitionerRole-TestClinicalScientist-Example", "identifier": { "system": "https://fhir.nhs.uk/Id/sds-user-id", "value": "9999999997" } } } ],
signature
Signed, encrypted copy of the document, for validation that the document has not been tampered with (the requirement to include this field has noot yet been validated).
"signature": [ { "type": [ { "system": "urn:iso-astm:E1762-95:2013", "code": "1.2.840.10065.1.12.1.15", "display": "Addendum Signature" } ], "when": "2023-08-10T11:10:00Z", "who": { "reference": "PractitionerRole/PractitionerRole-TestClinicalScientist-Example", "identifier": { "system": "https://fhir.nhs.uk/Id/sds-user-id", "value": "9999999997" } }, "data": "DQo8U2lnbm...F0dXJlPg0K" } ]