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Annotation stores
An annotation store is a data store in the Cloud Healthcare API that holds
annotation records. Annotation stores exist inside of datasets.
The AnnotationStore
resource provides a representation of an annotation store's
attributes. For each of your annotation stores, you can choose options like:
Key-value pairs that you can use to organize your annotation stores. For
more information, see Labeling resources.
Annotation records
In the Cloud Healthcare API, annotation records are labels that you can add to
healthcare resources. For example, you might want to add labels for diagnostics
to a FHIR patient resource, or add training labels when performing machine
learning tasks.
You can create annotation records for FHIR and DICOM data. However, annotation
stores and annotation records are kept separate from FHIR and DICOM stores and
their underlying data. Annotation stores and annotation records also have
their own permissions. This means that,
if you make an annotation record for a FHIR resource (such as a Patient), you
will need to combine the annotation record with the FHIR resource later,
matching based on a criteria like the Patient ID, for the annotation record to
take effect.
Separating annotation records from the data the annotation records reference
lets you have multiple annotation record versions that can all apply to a single
resource without impacting the original resource.
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