FHIR Module Question

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Application Name: Reference Application Version Number: 2.1.4

Question: I’m currently using the FHIR module add-on and whenever I try to use the Observation endpoint with the subject parameter using the patient ID as the value, I always get an empty result. I want to ask what patient ID the documentation is referring to. Thanks!

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can you give an example of the full url that you use??

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http://localhost:8080/openmrs/ws/fhir/Observation?subject:Patient={{patient id}}

I want to ask what the patient id should be; should it be the patient id found in the OpenMRS system?

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that url is wrongly constructed.

it should be

'http://localhost:8081/openmrs-standalone/ws/fhir/Observation?subject=ddd&patient=ddd'

subject and patient are supposed to be two different params

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cc @dkayiwa . what exactly should the patient param take in here ??

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Try something like this where subject is the patient uuid: https://demo.openmrs.org/openmrs/ws/fhir/Observation?subject=41d874f3-1d34-4e69-863c-cdac025d00ba

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thanks @dkayiwa. what of the patient param its self, what is it supposed to take in ??

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Where did you get that parameter from?

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it is documented in the swagger doc for the observation fhir resource

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Have you tried the patient’s UUID? Internal IDs (e.g., patient.id) should never be exposed by web services, since they are not guaranteed to be unique or permanent.

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Thanks @burke. does that mean both the patient and subject params take in the patient uuid ??