Unique Device Identifiers

In FHIR STU3 standard, Device resource identifies an instance or a type of a manufactured item that is used in the provision of healthcare without being substantially changed through that activity.

Immunizations is an administrative resource that tracks individual device types or instances of a device and their location. The device may be a medical or non-medical device. The substructure of udi of this resource is adapated to represent the CCDS element unique device identifiers.

Required or some important fields and parameters would be given in the following tables. Operations and parameters of this resource would also be listed.

Resource Element Fields

Name	Description	Type
identifier	Instance identifier	Identifier
udi (BackboneElement)	Unique Device Identifier (UDI) Barcode string	deviceIdentifier: string name: string jurisdiction: uri carrierHRF: string carrierAIDC: base64Binary issuer: uri entryType: code (UDIEntryType)
status	The status code	code (FHIRDeviceStatus)
type	What kind of device this is	CodeableConcept (FHIR Device Types)
lotNumber	Lot number of manufacture	string
manufacturer	Name of device manufacturer	string
model	Model id assigned by the manufacturer	string
version	Version number (i.e. software)	string
patient	Patient to whom Device is affixed	References (Patient)
owner	Organization responsible for device	References (Organization)

Get Unique Device Identifiers by Patient

Example:

                {
    "resourceType": "Bundle",
    "id": "74f83518-7b1d-4b5c-a9bb-9c24474b503d",
    "meta": {
        "lastUpdated": "2017-12-26T11:07:05.038-06:00"
    },
    "type": "searchset",
    "total": 1,
    "link": [
        {
            "relation": "self",
            "url": "https://evalfhir.directmdemail.com/fhir/baseDstu3/Device?patient=726&udi-di=%2801%2900643169007222%2817%29160128%2821%29BLC200461H"
        }
    ],
    "entry": [
        {
            "fullUrl": "https://evalfhir.directmdemail.com/fhir/baseDstu3/Device/783",
            "resource": {
                "resourceType": "Device",
                "id": "783",
                "meta": {
                    "versionId": "1",
                    "lastUpdated": "2017-12-26T09:21:57.000-06:00"
                },
                "udi": {
                    "deviceIdentifier": "(01)00643169007222(17)160128(21)BLC200461H",
                    "jurisdiction": "FDA"
                },
                "type": {
                    "coding": [
                        {
                            "system": "SNOMED CT",
                            "code": "704708004",
                            "display": "Cardiac resynchronization therapy implantable pacemaker"
                        }
                    ]
                },
                "patient": {
                    "reference": "Patient/726"
                }
            },
            "search": {
                "mode": "match"
            }
        }
    ]
}
                
    

For this resource, users are able to search using parameters like type, patient, and udi-di etc. Important searching parameters would be listed in the following table.

Parameter Name	Description	Type	Required
_id	The Id of the certain resource	string	False
identifier	The unique identifier for this UDI	string	False
patient	The Id representing the specific patient related with this resource	integer	True (If the query is concerning a specific patient)
type	Type of the device	string	False
status	The status of the certain device	string	False
udi-di	The UDI ID for this UDI	string	True (Used to access for this certain device)