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Retrieve a patient's diagnoses

Retrieve a patient's diagnoses

Last updated: Feb 18, 2025
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You can use this API action to access a patient’s diagnoses, as documented by a specific organization. The EHR system returns a patient’s general diagnoses, problems, or health concerns.

Use cases

This API action may be a good fit for your organization if you perform any of these use cases:

  • Provide patient education for specific conditions.
  • Offer targeted services to relevant patients.

Supported systems

You can use this API action with the Redox FHIR® API.

Your connection's system can return results with their own FHIR® or query-based API. 

Things you need to know

Action steps

Prerequisites

The following actions must be completed before attempting the steps below.

Steps
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    Retrieve a patient's diagnoses
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This table has notes about how to use parameters for this API action specifically, but it's not exhaustive. Refer to the Condition schema for more details.

Query parameter
Required
Notes
patient.identifier
Y
You must include at least one identifier for the patient that the EHR system uses. If you don't have a patient identifier, search for a patient with demographics to find one.
category
N
We recommend using this query parameter with the value problem-list-item to get a comprehensive list of diagnoses.

The response contains one or more conditions for an individual patient. You can find the total number of included diagnoses in the total array for FHIR® responses.

Condition/_search
Query
bash
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curl 'https://api.redoxengine.com/fhir/R4/redox-fhir-sandbox/Development/Condition/_search' \
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--request POST \
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--header 'Authorization: Bearer ${API_TOKEN}' \
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--header 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
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--data-urlencode 'patient=Patient/81c2f5eb-f99f-40c4-b504-59483e6148d7' \
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--data-urlencode 'category=problem-list-item'
Response
json
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{
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  "id": "c336094f-e294-4d9e-baee-89e26f6ac648",
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  "type": "searchset",
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  "entry": [
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    {
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      "search": {
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        "mode": "match",
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        "score": 1
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      },
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      "resource": {
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        "id": "fc26ffe0-130f-41a6-bd22-2cd388eb3ddf",
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        "code": {
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          "coding": [
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            {
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              "code": "386661006",
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              "system": "http://snomed.info/sct",
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              "display": "Fever"
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            }
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          ]
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        },
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        "meta": {
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          "lastUpdated": "2022-12-02T20:50:05.204Z"
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        },
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        "subject": {
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          "reference": "Patient/81c2f5eb-f99f-40c4-b504-59483e6148d7"
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        },
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        "bodySite": [
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          {
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            "coding": [
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              {
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                "code": "38266002",
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                "system": "http://snomed.info/sct",
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                "display": "Entire body as a whole"
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              }
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            ]
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          }
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        ],
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        "category": [
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          {
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            "coding": [
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              {
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                "code": "55607006",
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                "system": "http://snomed.info/sct",
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                "display": "Problem"
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              },
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              {
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                "code": "problem-list-item",
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                "system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/condition-category"
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              }
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            ]
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          }
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        ],
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        "severity": {
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          "coding": [
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            {
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              "code": "255604002",
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              "system": "http://snomed.info/sct",
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              "display": "Mild"
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            }
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          ]
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        },
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        "identifier": [
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          {
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            "value": "5849283275",
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            "system": "urn:redox:redox-fhir-sandbox:ConditionID",
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            "extension": [
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              {
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                "url": "https://fhir.redoxengine.com/StructureDefinition/identifier-origin",
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                "valueString": "RedoxAPI"
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              }
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            ]
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          }
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        ],
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        "resourceType": "Condition",
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        "onsetDateTime": "2022-08-06T04:00:00.000Z",
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        "clinicalStatus": {
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          "coding": [
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            {
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              "code": "resolved",
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              "system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/condition-clinical"
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            }
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          ]
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        },
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        "abatementDateTime": "2022-08-06T04:00:00.000Z",
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        "verificationStatus": {
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          "coding": [
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            {
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              "code": "confirmed",
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              "system": "http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/condition-ver-status"
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            }
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          ]
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        }
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      }
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    }
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  ],
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  "total": 1,
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  "resourceType": "Bundle"
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}