Response to Encounter search not sorted correctly

[Chris Kavan]

Encounters (R4) documentation says that "A populated Encounter response bundle will be sorted from newest to oldest based on the start of the Encounter.period.", but in the dev sandbox, it appears that the response is NOT sorted newest to oldest.

Example:
X-Request-Id cc0884b1-0708-4f77-ab61-e191bb40e9d9

Search returned 9 encounters sorted by encounter ID or start date:

[Aaron McGinn (Cerner)]

Thank you for noticing this. We are investigating the difference and what is correct and will post back with any updates.