FHIR R4 ResearchStudy Library

Overview

This asset is a component of MuleSoft Accelerator for Healthcare.

MuleSoft Accelerator for Healthcare enables healthcare providers to unlock critical patient data to build a patient 360 within Salesforce Health Cloud, faster and easier than ever before. The solution includes pre-built APIs, connectors, integration templates, and prescriptive end-to-end reference architecture to bring patient demographics information and COVID-19 test results from any EHR into Health Cloud using HL7 V2 or FHIR standards.

The solution also provides a library of United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) and FHIR R4 resources to help healthcare developers adhere to interoperability needs and jumpstart the development of healthcare digital transformation initiatives.

Use case covered

A process where a researcher or organization plans and then executes a series of steps intended to increase the field of healthcare-related knowledge. This includes studies of safety, efficacy, comparative effectiveness and other information about medications, devices, therapies and other interventional and investigative techniques. A ResearchStudy involves the gathering of information about human or animal subjects.

This resource is an definition resource from a FHIR workflow perspective - see Workflow.

A research study is a scientific way to improve or develop new methods of health care. Studies are designed to answer specific questions on how to prevent, diagnose, or treat diseases and disorders. The ResearchStudy resource describes essential information about the study, including the purpose, objective, sponsor, investigator, therapy, condition being studied, schedule of activities, and other key items.

Uses for the ResearchStudy resource include:

• Registering a clinical trial in trial registry such as clinicaltrials.gov
• Communicating study protocol information between study stakeholders
• Supporting study set up of sites, forms
• Grouping Observation resources by study
• Setting up a Schedule of Activities for the study and its subjects

This resource is referenced by UsageContext, AdverseEvent, MedicinalProduct, itself and ResearchSubject

This library is used by FHIR R4 ResearchStudy API.

More information about FHIR R4 ResearchStudy specification can be found here.