Encounter or visit

An individual encounter or visit for an individual to obtain related services. It is the context for related information.

GitHub issue: ISSUE

Phenopackets representation

This concept is not represented in the Phenopackets specification, but it is required to support Use Case 2 (UC2).

FHIR representation

FHIR provides an Encounter resource.

Phenopackets IG representation

N/A

Proposed Core IG representation

We will use the encounter resource and related ones to organize the initial clinical information that led the practitioner to order the laboratory request for UC2. It will be the needed context for what should be extracted into a phenopacket instance that represents the phenotypic information noted during that encounter.