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Fig. 2 | Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control

Fig. 2

From: Federated systems for automated infection surveillance: a perspective

Fig. 2

Example of three FHIR Observation elements, integrating terminology. The FHIR element Observation.code can be associated to a LOINC code to specify the type of observation. The FHIR element Observation.value is used to describe the result of the observation, in this case, using the SNOMED CT code for “detected”. The name of the detected micro-organism, “Staphylococcus aureus” in the example, can be defined in the FHIR element Observation.component.value specified by the corresponding SNOMED CT code

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