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J Am Med Inform Assoc 16:874-881 doi:10.1197/jamia.M3123
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The HL7-OMG Healthcare Services Specification Project: Motivation, Methodology, and Deliverables for Enabling a Semantically Interoperable Service-oriented Architecture for Healthcare

Table 4

Functional Specification for RLUS Capability of Retrieve Resources by Resource Parameter

Capability Facet Specification for Facet
Description given a unique identifier and a semantic signifier, returns a particular resource transformed to the semantic structure in the semantic signifier.
Preconditions

  • resources are available and accessible to RLUS

  • submitter has agreed to exchange data via RLUS with the organization

  • semantic signifiers are being used, are describable and available, and are able to be modeled logically
Inputs

  • query by example (for example, patient identifier), OR

  • semantic signifier identifying the information model for returning the resource of interest (resource semantic signifier); semantic signifier identifying the information model that is used to express the query parameters (query parameter semantic signifier); and query parameters, expressed in conformance with the query parameter semantic signifier

Outputs the resource, transformed into the semantic model identified as an input parameter
Post-conditions

  • a read-only representation of the resource is available to the requester's system

  • the resource has been transformed using the semantic signifier
Exception conditions the resource is unavailable; the resource ID is unable to be resolved; the semantic transformation is invalid; the semantic signifier is invalid or unavailable

  • RLUS = Retrieve, Locate, and Update Service.

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