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: Deceased Patient Identified Topic - XML Representation

Draft as of 2026-04-26

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<SubscriptionTopic xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="deceased-patient-identified"/>
  <text>
    <status value="generated"/>
    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p class="res-header-id"><b>Generated Narrative: SubscriptionTopic deceased-patient-identified</b></p><a name="deceased-patient-identified"> </a><a name="hcdeceased-patient-identified"> </a><table class="grid"><tr><td><b>SubscriptionTopic</b></td><td>Deceased Patient Identified</td></tr><tr><td><b>Description</b></td><td><div><p>Fires when a Patient resource conforming to the FODDER Deceased Patient profile is created or updated, indicating that the Veritas Fact of Death API has confirmed a mortality for that patient.</p>
</div></td></tr><tr><td><b>Copyright Statement:</b></td><td> null</td></tr></table><table class="grid"><tr><td colspan="4"><b>Resource Triggers</b></td></tr><tr><th><b>Resource</b></th><th><b>Interactions</b></th><th><b>FHIR Path</b></th><th><b>Description</b></th></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/patient.html">http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Patient</a></td><td>create, update</td><td>Patient.deceased.exists() and Patient.deceased is dateTime</td><td><div><p>A Patient resource carrying a deceasedDateTime is created or updated.</p>
</div></td></tr></table><table class="grid"><tr><td colspan="2"><b>Can Filter By</b></td></tr><tr><th><b>Resource</b></th><th><b>Filter Parameter</b></th></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/patient.html">http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Patient</a></td><td>identifier</td></tr></table><table class="grid"><tr><td colspan="1"><b>Notification Shapes</b></td></tr><tr><th><b>Resource</b></th></tr><tr><td><a href="http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/patient.html">http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Patient</a></td></tr></table></div>
  </text>
  <url
       value="https://onyxhealth.io/fhir/fodder/SubscriptionTopic/deceased-patient-identified"/>
  <version value="0.1.0"/>
  <name value="DeceasedPatientIdentifiedTopic"/>
  <title value="Deceased Patient Identified"/>
  <status value="draft"/>
  <experimental value="true"/>
  <date value="2026-04-26"/>
  <publisher value="Onyx Technology, LLC and Veritas Data Research"/>
  <contact>
    <name value="Onyx Technology, LLC and Veritas Data Research"/>
    <telecom>
      <system value="url"/>
      <value value="https://onyxhealth.io"/>
    </telecom>
  </contact>
  <contact>
    <name value="Onyx Technology, LLC"/>
    <telecom>
      <system value="url"/>
      <value value="https://onyxhealth.io"/>
    </telecom>
    <telecom>
      <system value="email"/>
      <value value="Mark.Scrimshire@onyxhealth.io"/>
    </telecom>
  </contact>
  <description
               value="Fires when a Patient resource conforming to the FODDER Deceased Patient profile is created or updated, indicating that the Veritas Fact of Death API has confirmed a mortality for that patient."/>
  <jurisdiction>
    <coding>
      <system value="urn:iso:std:iso:3166"/>
      <code value="US"/>
      <display value="United States of America"/>
    </coding>
  </jurisdiction>
  <resourceTrigger>
    <description
                 value="A Patient resource carrying a deceasedDateTime is created or updated."/>
    <resource value="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Patient"/>
    <supportedInteraction value="create"/>
    <supportedInteraction value="update"/>
    <fhirPathCriteria
                      value="Patient.deceased.exists() and Patient.deceased is dateTime"/>
  </resourceTrigger>
  <canFilterBy>
    <description
                 value="Filter notifications by Patient.identifier (system|value)."/>
    <resource value="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Patient"/>
    <filterParameter value="identifier"/>
  </canFilterBy>
  <notificationShape>
    <resource value="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Patient"/>
  </notificationShape>
</SubscriptionTopic>