UK Core Implementation Guide STU3 Sequence - Sprint 6 Review

Issue 3

Context of Issue
Use on element Specimen.collection.bodySite
Source of proposal Genomic Medicine Service

Issue Proposal
The FHIR R5 snapshot of the Specimen resource, has a change to Specimen.collection.bodySite, altering the data type of the element from CodeableConcept to CodeableReference (BodyStructure).

Genomics have a use case for referencing the BodyStructure.
  • Backport the R5 functionality as a new extension: Extension-UKCore-BodySiteReference

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