Encounter

FHIR clinical resource from the Patient Administration module.

Definition

Encounter captures the administrative context of a care event: status (planned, in-progress, completed), class (ambulatory, inpatient, emergency), participants, period and location. It ties observations, conditions and procedures to a specific episode of care.

Origin

Defined in the HL7 FHIR specification (R4/R5), Patient Administration module, published by HL7 International. FMM (maturity) level 2 in R4.

Example in context

<Encounter><status value="finished"/><class></class><subject><reference value="Patient/123"/></subject></Encounter>