UK Core Implementation Guide STU3 Sequence

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`photo`

A photograph relating to a patient. This can be included as either:

An attachment encoded as base64Binary with a relevant MIME contentType: image/png, image/jpg or image/jpeg preferred.

Example of `Patient.photo` usage:

Table View

Patient.id[0]	UKCore-Patient-Sn-Photo-Example
Patient.photo[0].contentType[0]	image/png
Patient.photo[0].data[0]	base64Binary

Tree View

Patient

id : UKCore-Patient-Sn-Photo-Example

photo

contentType : image/png

data : base64Binary

XML View

<Patient xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
    <id value="UKCore-Patient-Sn-Photo-Example" />
    <!--  **************snippet start**************  -->
    <photo>
        <contentType value="image/png" />
        <data value="base64Binary" />
    </photo>
    <!--  **************snippet end**************  -->
</Patient>

JSON View

{
    "resourceType": "Patient",
    "id": "UKCore-Patient-Sn-Photo-Example",
    "photo":  [
        {
            "contentType": "image/png",
            "data": "base64Binary"
        }
    ]
}

and/or

URL where the data can be found.

If both are used, the URL SHALL point to the same data as that encoded in the attachment.