FHIR RestfulAPI spec appears to include “match.” Would like to know more about the Patient Administration Work group’s Trial Use process for FHIT features/operations. The website shows a maturity level of 5, upgrade to “Trial Use” from Informative, recently for match.
https://www.hl7.org/fhir/patient-operation-match.html
8.1.17.1.1 Examples
Request: Patient match using patient resource:
POST /open/Patient/$match
[some headers]
{
“resourceType”: “Parameters”,
“id”: “example”,
“parameter”: [
{
“name”: “resource”,
“resource”: {
“resourceType”: “Patient”,
“identifier”: [
{
“use”: “usual”,
“type”: {
“coding”: [
{
“system”: “0203 - FHIR v4.0.1”,
“code”: “MR”
}
]
},
“system”: “urn:oid:1.2.36.146.595.217.0.1”,
“value”: “12345”
}
],
“name”: [
{
“family”: [
“Chalmers”
],
“given”: [
“Peter”
]
}
],
“gender”: “male”,
“birthDate”: “1974-12-25”
}
},
{
“name”: “count”,
“valueInteger”: “3”
},
{
“name”: “onlyCertainMatches”,
“valueBoolean”: “false”
}
]
}
Want to know whether or not ‘Trial Use’ status of this feature means match operation has been deployed in recent FHIR software release.