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Table 2 FHIR PIT field names and functionality

From: FHIR PIT: an open software application for spatiotemporal integration of clinical data and environmental exposures data

Field name

Functionality

name

Designates name of given step instance

dependsOn

Defines other step instances that given step instance depends on

skip

Determines whether given step instance should be skipped; if skip is “true”, then this step will not be run; skip function allows for partial re-execution of pipelines that have not been completely executed

step

Defines the given step instance

step.function

Designates the function name for given step instance; this is usually a class name

step.arguments

Delineates specific arguments for given step function; the arguments vary according to the step function