Enhance patient search

[phwiget]

Currently only a single string can be used to query the patients, i.e. http://localhost:8380/fhir/Patient/?name=meier
This may not be optimal in case of several "Meiers" or "Müller" etc.
Could we implement a feature, that may split strings based on space and then will query multiple properties (like first name, last name etc.)?
I.e: http://localhost:8380/fhir/Patient/?name=meier%20peter would query the elexis-DB based on meier and peter

Gruess Philipp

[col-panic]

Can you take a look at this during the update to the next FHIR version?

[col-panic]

According to https://www.hl7.org/fhir/patient.html#search the parameter name is A server defined search that may match any of the string fields in the HumanName, including family, give, prefix, suffix, suffix, and/or text so according to this it fits its purpose.

If you want additional search combinations, we have to implement them. Please tell us a specific combination you need.