Are pictures of the patient and or provider available via the Cerner version of FHIR?

[Mark Butler]

I'd like to do some facial recognition stuff with SMART on FHIR. I've seen that the FHIR spec has room for at least one picture of a patient. Is this available in the Cerner API? I'm working with Millennium.

Thanks in advance.

[Jenni Syed (Cerner)]

Hi Mark,

We don't currently return the patient's profile picture from our patient service.

https://fhir.cerner.com/millennium/dstu2/individuals/patient/#overview

Thanks,

Jenni

[Mark Butler]

Thanks for the reply Jenni. Is that link related to the answer?

[Jenni Syed (Cerner)]

It would have been... if I had grabbed the correct one... :)

I updated it to point to the overview of the resource. We try to list (and link) to all the fields we expose for each resource in the overview section.

~ Jenni

[Mark Butler]

I already know the answer but...

Is making patient images available anywhere on the horizon?

I'd like to use it for automated check-in using Facial Recognition. (Sounds like fun doesn't it?)

[Yegor Hanov (Cerner)]

Hi, Mark!  Picture retrieval is not on our short term plans.

-Yegor (Cerner)

[Mark Butler]

I'll buy you a half rack and two large pizzas if you add it.