Patient resource missing Race and Ethnicity fields
# support
n
Hello Medplum team, I wanted to bring to your attention that I have noticed that the Patient resource does not include fields for Race and Ethnicity. As these are essential demographic factors that can impact healthcare outcomes and are commonly collected by healthcare providers, having these fields available in the Patient resource would be beneficial. I have reviewed the FHIR specification and noticed that Race and Ethnicity are optional fields in the Patient resource, so I'm not sure why they are missing in the version available in Medplum. I have attached a screenshot of the fields in the Patient resource for reference. Could you please look into this issue and let me know if there are plans to add Race and Ethnicity fields to the Patient resource in Medplum? Thank you for your attention to this matter. Best
r
Race and ethnicity are standard extensions, which Medplum definitely supports, but are not built into the resource table. Here are examples from our tutorial on how to construct resources with race and ethnicity data per the standard: https://www.medplum.com/docs/tutorials/importing-sample-data
n
Thank you, @reshma , for your guidance. I appreciate your help. I'm looking for a resource table to supports race and ethnicity
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