Is the encounter resource used to store appointment information?
The Encounter resource is not to be used to store appointment information, the Appointment resource is intended to be used for that. Note that in many systems outpatient encounters (which are in scope for Encounter) and Appointment are used concurrently.
When is a patient admitted to an encounter?
For other examples such as an outpatient visit (day procedure – colonoscopy), the patient could also be considered to be admitted, hence the encounter doesn’t have a fixed definition of admitted. At a minimum, we do believe that a patient IS admitted when the status is in-progress.
Can a hospitalization lead to a new instance of encounter?
For example, each single visit of a practitioner during a hospitalization may lead to a new instance of Encounter, but depending on local practice and the systems involved, it may well be that this is aggregated to a single instance for a whole hospitalization.
What are the different types of encounters in health care?
Amongst them are ambulatory, emergency, home health, inpatient and virtual encounters. An Encounter encompasses the lifecycle from pre-admission, the actual encounter (for ambulatory encounters), and admission, stay and discharge (for inpatient encounters).
The Encounter resource is not to be used to store appointment information, the Appointment resource is intended to be used for that. Note that in many systems outpatient encounters (which are in scope for Encounter) and Appointment are used concurrently.
For other examples such as an outpatient visit (day procedure – colonoscopy), the patient could also be considered to be admitted, hence the encounter doesn’t have a fixed definition of admitted. At a minimum, we do believe that a patient IS admitted when the status is in-progress.
Amongst them are ambulatory, emergency, home health, inpatient and virtual encounters. An Encounter encompasses the lifecycle from pre-admission, the actual encounter (for ambulatory encounters), and admission, stay and discharge (for inpatient encounters).
For example, each single visit of a practitioner during a hospitalization may lead to a new instance of Encounter, but depending on local practice and the systems involved, it may well be that this is aggregated to a single instance for a whole hospitalization.