Patient Conditions and Encounters

Hi all,

OpenMRS is Encounter centric in the sense that almost all patient data is associated with an encounter.

The Condition is a relatively new domain to core. It as FHIR Resource, it can be associated with an encounter(checkout the Compartments section).


Question

Does it make sense to have Conditions linked to an Encounter in our data model?

Why I believe this is required?

At Mekom, we are consuming the <condition/> HFE tag in a couple of forms, this tag is used for capturing Conditions of a patient. While in ‘view’ mode(of the form), we require to view conditions recorded for that particular encounter.

What are your thoughts on this?

/ cc: @mksd, @dkayiwa, @ibacher, @mogoodrich