This page is part of the Finnish Base Profiles (v0.2.0: STU 1 Draft) based on FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) R4. The current version which supersedes this version is 2.0.0-rc2. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

Extensions

The primary way to adapt the FHIR specification to specific requirements of a jurisdiction is through extensions.

Extensions for Finnish Base Profiles

This list includes the extensions for base profiles defined by HL7 Finland.

• Vaccination Recorder

  Vaccination recorder may not be the same person who performed the addministration.

• Municipality Code

  Extension for home municipality. Home municipality is relevant for ex. in billing and listing available healthcare services, and for statistical purposes. It it not necessarily the place where a patient lives, rather closer to where they pay their taxes.

• Primary condition for encounter

  Encoded information of whether this is the primary/main condition for encounter.

• Patient Profession Extension

  Extension for presenting patient profession.

• Endocrinological disorder

  Code for Endocrinological disorder.

• Permanence of condition

  Encoded information of whether this is the permanent.

• Medication that caused this condition

  Encoded information of medication that caused this condition. Uses ATC-coding.

• Cause of an adverse effect

  Encoded information on the cause of an adverse effect, when involving a procedure or medication

• Categorization of the type of accident

  Encoded categorization of the type of accident leading to injury, illness or death.

• External cause for diagnosis

  External cause for diagnosis.

• Type of physical exercise during which injury occurred.

  Encoded information of the type of physical exercise during which injury occurred.

Extensions in other Finnish Implementation Guides

There are other, more use case specific extensions defined in other implementation guides. For instance:

• Both the Finnish Appointment IG and the Finnish Scheduling IG for scheduling
• Both the Finnish PHR STU3 and the Finnish PHR R4 for health and wellbeing data in the national Personal Health Record platform Kanta PHR
• The Kanta FHIR Prescription R4 for prescriptions
• The Kanta sosiaalihuolto R4 for welfare and social affairs

Other Extensions

In addition to above, a registry of standard extensions can be found in the FHIR specification and additional extensions may be registered on the HL7 FHIR registry at http://hl7.org/fhir/registry.