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Appointment_Hold
OPERATION: Appointment_Hold
The official URL for this operation definition is:
http://fhir.org/guides/argonaut-scheduling/OperationDefinition/appointment-hold
Request for a hold on a selected Appointment in order for the user to complete entering data for booking an appointment. This operation precedes the booking and follows the appointment availability interaction. The server determines if the nominated appointment is still available (i.e., all the required actors and physical assets needed for the appointment are still available) and either accepts or rejects the hold request and updates the resource status accordingly. See the Appointment State Diagram for further details on statuses.
URL: [base]/Appointment/$hold
URL: [base]/Appointment/[id]/$hold
Parameters
Use | Name | Cardinality | Type | Binding | Documentation |
IN | appt-id | 0..1 | uri |
A resource id for one of proposed Appointments returned by a prior $find operation (e.g., Resource/1234). References can be to an absolute URL, but servers only perform this operation on their own appointments. |
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IN | appt-resource | 0..1 | Appointment (Argonaut Appointment Profile) |
When prefetching open Slots, an Argonaut Appointment Profile resource is created by the Client Application and is exchanged with the FHIR Scheduler (EHR). This parameter represents this profile and is the same as used for the |
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OUT | return | 0..1 | Bundle (Argonaut Appointment Bundle Profile) |
An Argonaut Appointment Bundle Profile of type |
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This operation is not idempotent and may only be invoked by performing an HTTP POST.
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The length of an appointment hold is determined by the scheduling service’s business rules, after which the status of the Appointment may change. An
Expires
header Should be included in the response to successful hold request to indicate its expiration. The Client should cancel a hold on an appointment before it expires. -
When using the
appt-resource
as an input parameter, the payload can be either the Appointment resource or use the Parameters format as shown in the examples below
The operation can be invoked as follows:
POST [base]/Appointment/[id]/$hold
when usingappt-id
as an input parameterPOST [base]/Appointment/$hold
when usingappt-resource
as an input parameter
Examples
1) Using appt-id
as an input parameter
Request
POST [base]/Appointment/proposed-appt1a-1/$hold
Request body
{
"resourceType": "Parameters",
"parameter": [
{
"name": "appt-id",
"valueUrl" : "Appointment/proposed-appt1a-1"
}
]
}
Response
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Expires: Wed, 21 March 2018 07:28:00 GMT
[other headers]
Response body
{
"resourceType": "Bundle",
"id": "hal-dr-y-held",
"type": "searchset",
"total": 2,
"entry": [{
"fullUrl": "http://server/path/Appointment/booked-appt1a",
"resource": {
"resourceType": "Appointment",
"id": "held-appt1a",
...snip...
"status" : "pending",
"serviceType" : [
...snip...
"fullUrl": "http://server/path/OperationOutcome/oo-held-appt1a",
"resource": {
"resourceType": "OperationOutcome",
"id": "oo-held-appt1a-appt1a",
.. snip ...
}
]
}
2) Using appt-resource
as an input parameter
Request
POST [base]/Appointment/$hold
Appointment resource as request body
{
"resourceType" : "Appointment",
...snip...
"status" : "proposed",
"serviceType" : [
...snip...
"start" : "2017-07-17T01:00:00Z",
"end" : "2017-07-17T01:15:00Z",
"participant" : [
{
"actor" : {
"reference" : "Practitioner/dr-y",
"display" : "Dr Y"
...snip...
}
Parameter format as request body
{
"resourceType": "Parameters",
"parameter": [
{
"name": "appt-resource",
"resource":{
"resourceType" : "Appointment",
"id" : "proposed-appt2",
...snip...
"status" : "proposed",
"serviceType" : [
...snip...
"start" : "2017-07-17T01:00:00Z",
"end" : "2017-07-17T01:15:00Z",
"participant" : [
{
"actor" : {
"reference" : "Practitioner/dr-y",
"display" : "Dr Y"
...snip...
}
}
]
}
Response
HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Location: [base]/Appointment/argo-appt-1/_history/1
Expires: Wed, 21 March 2018 07:28:00 GMT
[other headers]
Response body
{
"resourceType": "Bundle",
"id": "argo-appt-1",
"type": "searchset",
"total": 2,
"entry": [{
"fullUrl": "http://server/path/Appointment/scheduled-appt2a",
"resource": {
"resourceType": "Appointment",
"id": "held-appt2a",
...snip ...
"status" : "pending",
"serviceType" : [
...snip...
"fullUrl": "http://server/path/OperationOutcome/oo-held-appt1a",
"resource": {
"resourceType": "OperationOutcome",
"id": "oo-held-appt1a-appt1a",
.. snip ...
}
]
}