BC Client Registry FHIR Implementation Guide
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OperationDefinition: Partial Update Patient

Official URL: http://hlth.gov.bc.ca/fhir/client/OperationDefinition/bc-patient-update Version: 1.0.0
Draft as of 2024-06-07 Computable Name: PartialUpdatePatient

This operation is used to update a patient’s demographics, applied to only specific Patient attributes.

Note
This specification is currently published as a Draft Standard on the ministry GitHub and is not intended for implementation. Feedback is welcome but readers should understand that there is more work to be done in testing the profiles and operations defined in this guide. For more information, please see the Future Plans page in this guide.

This is the Update Patient operation which is used to update only some attributes of a Patient. For a partial update the sending source’s primary identifier must exist in the EMPI. For SRI source a member with the supplied SRI must exist in EMPI and for a PHN source an MOH_CRS member must exist in the EMPI with the supplied PHN.

URL: [base]/Patient/$PartialUpdatePatient

Input parameters Profile:PartialUpdateRequestBundle

Output parameters Profile:ReviseResponseBundle

Parameters

UseNameScopeCardinalityTypeBindingDocumentation
INUpdatePatientRequestBundle1..1Bundle

Update request Bundle.

OUTRevisePatientResponseBundle1..1Bundle

Update response Bundle (which is the ReviseResponseBundle).

Notes:

In Bundle Entries

Cardinality Resource Type Comment
1..1 MetadataParametersIn See profile.
1..1 UpdatePatient See profile.

Out Bundle Entries

Cardinality Resource Type Comment
1..1 MetadataParametersOut See profile.
1,,1 OperationOutcome An OperationOutcome resource that has warnings and errors regarding the operation requested.
0..1 ClientRegistryPatient See profile.

Metadata In Parameters

Besides the two mandatory name-value pairs, see here there are no additiontal In parameters required.

Metadata Out Parameters

Besides the mandatory parameters, there additional Out parameters required.

Examples

See Update Patient request example.
See Update Patient response example. The update response is identifical to the example Revise Patient response.