Clinical documents

This represents any type of document or file that is clinically relevant. However, for this project we’re primarily concerned with the following types of documents:

• A phenopacket message, object, document, etc. in its native format.

• Other…

GitHub issue: ISSUE

Phenopackets representation

Phenopackets schema has a top level entity that represents the container for the information in a phenopacket instance.

FHIR representation

FHIR allows various resources to reference a document through a DocumentReference. This resource can be used to capture a reference to a phenopacket document in the context of a FHIR API. We’ll need to determine the:

• DocumentReference.type

• DocumentReference.content.format

• DocumentReference.content.attachment.contentType

The content of a phenopacket can be base64-encoded and added to DocumentReference.content.attachment.data

Phenopackets IG representation

N/A

Proposed Core IG representation

Use a DocumentReference and inline a phenopacket while submitting a laboratory request for UC 2.