A042: Using the e-Referral Service FHIR API for Attachment Status Testing
A042 - Attachment status testing - e-Referral Service FHIR API
NHS England is addressing methods for testing attachment statuses within the e-Referral Service FHIR API.
Summary
The NHS England Developer Community provides an FHIR API resource for A042 (Attachment status testing). This is a technical resource designed to verify the status of attachments within the electronic referral service.
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Details
This page is published as part of the NHS England developer community, introducing an API endpoint for specific healthcare information exchange. Specifically, it focuses on the function titled 'A042 - Attachment status testing - e-Referral Service FHIR API'. This API is designed to verify the status of attachments (Attachment) used in the context of the electronic referral service. FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) is an international specification for exchanging medical data in a standardized format, and this function is presumed to be implemented according to that standard. As a developer resource, it is expected to provide specific usage instructions and technical details (e.g., how to query which resource). Given the importance of status management for attachments and related data during interoperability between different systems in Japan's healthcare IT environment, the existence of such standardized APIs is highly relevant. The article itself has the nature of a technical specification introduction page (Spec/Reference Page), providing guidelines for specific functionality implementation.
Technology Note
FHIR(Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources)は医療データ交換の国際標準。このエントリの関連技術: FHIR
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