Glossary
What is CarePlan in FHIR?
A CarePlan is a FHIR resource that describes intended care for a patient: activities, goals, care team, status, and timeline.
In context
A CarePlan can carry one or more activities, each with its own status and scheduling. Activities reference other resources (a Questionnaire to be completed, a MedicationRequest to be administered, an Appointment to be attended) or describe the work inline.
CarePlan is the bridge between a clinical plan and the operational work a system needs to do: tasks to schedule, notifications to send, and outcomes to record.
How Fire Arrow handles it
Fire Arrow Server can materialise CarePlan activities into Task resources on a recurring schedule. Each Task becomes 'ready' at its due time, and FHIR Subscriptions notify the application when one becomes due. The schedule lives on the CarePlan as data, so updating the plan updates the resulting tasks without code changes or redeploys.
