1. Salesforce Health Cloud Developer Guide: Customize the Advanced Patient Card
Reference: The guide explicitly states, "To customize the patient card, first clone the HealthCloudPatientCardParent FlexCard." It then details adding child cards and configuring their properties, which includes setting up a data source. This supports options A and B.
2. Salesforce OmniStudio Documentation: FlexCards Data Source Properties
Reference: This documentation specifies that FlexCards use data sources like DataRaptors, SOQL queries, or Apex to retrieve data. For extracting and filtering records from a Salesforce object as required in the question, a DataRaptor Extract is the standard and recommended method. This supports option C.
3. Salesforce Trailhead: FlexCard Basics > Create a FlexCard
Reference: The "Activate a FlexCard" unit explains that a FlexCard (including child cards) must be activated to be used or displayed within another component or Lightning page. This confirms the "activate" part of option B is a necessary step.