Show patient location in the patient search banner O3

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Hello everyone,

In our distribution some user with access to more than one location are having difficulties distinguish between patients.

For example:

  • You have the patient John Doe in a location A.
  • You have a different patient also names John Doe in a location B.
  • You have access to location A and B.
  • You login in location A.
  • You will see both patients and didn’t know each on is each.

Our suggestion is to add the patient location on the patient search banner.

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However currently the Patient FHIR API doesn’t return the patient location. Is Ok to use the main identifier location instead?

Note: Showing the location should be base on configuration.

cc: @ibacher, @dkayiwa, @dkigen

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This is a kind of implementation-specific call. Currently, we don’t really have a shared notion of “patient location”, at least for patients who are not actively in a visit, in which case the location is the visit location. We could probably add some sort of extension slot to accommodate the need to display something extra, though.

Also note that patient search does not, at this point in time, use the FHIR API at all.

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Hello @ibacher,

Thanks for your help. We already have the patient-banner-tags-slot to add tags, so we will propose to the business to add the locations as a tag.