This profile describes how applications fetch Practitioner resources that provide information about other individuals that are involved in the care of the patient.

Example Usage Scenarios:

A patient’s record is full of records of events or planned actions where the actors are care practitioners of various kinds. Note that these include any person employed by a healthcare provider, including clerical staff, orderlies, etc as well as the more obvious practitioners such as doctors and nurses. All these may be represented as a Practitioner resource.

Note that the Patient Access API provides access to both Practitioner and PractitionerRole resources. The difference in underlying record keeping that leads to this choice is not of interest to clients that access patient records, but they can expect to encounter both types of resource.

All servers SHALL provide an API to access Practitioner resources as described here. Note that servers are allowed to provide some practitioner records as contained resources, but SHOULD avoid doing so where ever possible.

Clients access practitioner resources using this call:

GET [url]/Practitioner/[id]

where id is found in some other resource that refers to a Practitioner. The result of this request is a Practitioner resource, or an error if there is no resource the client can access for that id.

The Practitioner SHALL have:

• an active flag
• a name

Note that in some cases, the actual name of the practitioner is not made available. In such cases, the server SHALL provider some human-useful text in HumanName.text that the client can use.

Servers may choose to provide additional information, or may be required to do so by national or other additional profiles on practitioner that apply in the servers context.

Search

Servers are not required to support search functionality on Practitioner, but may do so. If they do, the search SHALL be limited to Practitioner resources that relate to the patient in scope. Typical search parameters a Server could choose to support would be name and active

• Text Summary
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This structure is derived from Practitioner

Name	Flags	Card.	Type	Description & Constraints
Practitioner		0..*	Practitioner	A person with a formal responsibility in the provisioning of healthcare or related services
active	S	1..1	boolean	Whether this practitioner's record is in active use
name	S	1..*	HumanName	The name(s) associated with the practitioner
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Name	Flags	Card.	Type	Description & Constraints
Practitioner		0..*	Practitioner	A person with a formal responsibility in the provisioning of healthcare or related services
id	Σ	0..1	string	Logical id of this artifact
meta	Σ	0..1	Meta	Metadata about the resource
implicitRules	?!Σ	0..1	uri	A set of rules under which this content was created
language		0..1	code	Language of the resource content Binding: CommonLanguages (preferred): A human language. Additional Bindings Purpose AllLanguages Max Binding
text		0..1	Narrative	Text summary of the resource, for human interpretation
contained		0..*	Resource	Contained, inline Resources
extension		0..*	Extension	Additional content defined by implementations
modifierExtension	?!	0..*	Extension	Extensions that cannot be ignored
identifier	Σ	0..*	Identifier	An identifier for the person as this agent
active	SΣ	1..1	boolean	Whether this practitioner's record is in active use
name	SΣ	1..*	HumanName	The name(s) associated with the practitioner
telecom	Σ	0..*	ContactPoint	A contact detail for the practitioner (that apply to all roles)
address	Σ	0..*	Address	Address(es) of the practitioner that are not role specific (typically home address)
gender	Σ	0..1	code	male | female | other | unknown Binding: AdministrativeGender (required): The gender of a person used for administrative purposes.
birthDate	Σ	0..1	date	The date on which the practitioner was born
photo		0..*	Attachment	Image of the person
qualification		0..*	BackboneElement	Certification, licenses, or training pertaining to the provision of care
id		0..1	string	Unique id for inter-element referencing
extension		0..*	Extension	Additional content defined by implementations
modifierExtension	?!Σ	0..*	Extension	Extensions that cannot be ignored even if unrecognized
identifier		0..*	Identifier	An identifier for this qualification for the practitioner
code		1..1	CodeableConcept	Coded representation of the qualification Binding: v2 table 0360, Version 2.7 (example): Specific qualification the practitioner has to provide a service.
period		0..1	Period	Period during which the qualification is valid
issuer		0..1	Reference(Organization)	Organization that regulates and issues the qualification
communication		0..*	CodeableConcept	A language the practitioner can use in patient communication Binding: CommonLanguages (preferred): A human language. Additional Bindings Purpose AllLanguages Max Binding
Documentation for this format

Name	Flags	Card.	Type	Description & Constraints
Practitioner		0..*	Practitioner	A person with a formal responsibility in the provisioning of healthcare or related services
active	Σ	1..1	boolean	Whether this practitioner's record is in active use
name	Σ	1..*	HumanName	The name(s) associated with the practitioner
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This structure is derived from Practitioner

Summary

Mandatory: 2 elements
Must-Support: 2 elements

Differential View

This structure is derived from Practitioner

Name	Flags	Card.	Type	Description & Constraints
Practitioner		0..*	Practitioner	A person with a formal responsibility in the provisioning of healthcare or related services
active	S	1..1	boolean	Whether this practitioner's record is in active use
name	S	1..*	HumanName	The name(s) associated with the practitioner
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Snapshot View

Name	Flags	Card.	Type	Description & Constraints
Practitioner		0..*	Practitioner	A person with a formal responsibility in the provisioning of healthcare or related services
id	Σ	0..1	string	Logical id of this artifact
meta	Σ	0..1	Meta	Metadata about the resource
implicitRules	?!Σ	0..1	uri	A set of rules under which this content was created
language		0..1	code	Language of the resource content Binding: CommonLanguages (preferred): A human language. Additional Bindings Purpose AllLanguages Max Binding
text		0..1	Narrative	Text summary of the resource, for human interpretation
contained		0..*	Resource	Contained, inline Resources
extension		0..*	Extension	Additional content defined by implementations
modifierExtension	?!	0..*	Extension	Extensions that cannot be ignored
identifier	Σ	0..*	Identifier	An identifier for the person as this agent
active	SΣ	1..1	boolean	Whether this practitioner's record is in active use
name	SΣ	1..*	HumanName	The name(s) associated with the practitioner
telecom	Σ	0..*	ContactPoint	A contact detail for the practitioner (that apply to all roles)
address	Σ	0..*	Address	Address(es) of the practitioner that are not role specific (typically home address)
gender	Σ	0..1	code	male | female | other | unknown Binding: AdministrativeGender (required): The gender of a person used for administrative purposes.
birthDate	Σ	0..1	date	The date on which the practitioner was born
photo		0..*	Attachment	Image of the person
qualification		0..*	BackboneElement	Certification, licenses, or training pertaining to the provision of care
id		0..1	string	Unique id for inter-element referencing
extension		0..*	Extension	Additional content defined by implementations
modifierExtension	?!Σ	0..*	Extension	Extensions that cannot be ignored even if unrecognized
identifier		0..*	Identifier	An identifier for this qualification for the practitioner
code		1..1	CodeableConcept	Coded representation of the qualification Binding: v2 table 0360, Version 2.7 (example): Specific qualification the practitioner has to provide a service.
period		0..1	Period	Period during which the qualification is valid
issuer		0..1	Reference(Organization)	Organization that regulates and issues the qualification
communication		0..*	CodeableConcept	A language the practitioner can use in patient communication Binding: CommonLanguages (preferred): A human language. Additional Bindings Purpose AllLanguages Max Binding
Documentation for this format