Information about a person that is involved in the care for a patient, but who is not the target of healthcare, nor has a formal responsibility in the care process.

Need to track persons related to the patient or the healthcare process.

Identifier for a person within a particular scope.

People are known by a variety of ids. Some institutions maintain several, and most collect identifiers for exchange with other organizations concerning the patient. Examples are national person identifier and local identifier.

The patient this person is related to.

We need to know which patient this RelatedPerson is related to.

The nature of the relationship between a patient and the related person.

We need to know the relationship with the patient since it influences the interpretation of the information attributed to this person.

A name associated with the person.

Related persons need to be identified by name, but it is uncommon to need details about multiple other names for that person.

A contact detail for the person, e.g. a telephone number or an email address.

People have (primary) ways to contact them in some way such as phone, email.

Person may have multiple ways to be contacted with different uses or applicable periods. May need to have options for contacting the person urgently, and also to help with identification.

Administrative Gender - the gender that the person is considered to have for administration and record keeping purposes.

Needed for identification of the person, in combination with (at least) name and birth date.

The date on which the related person was born.

Address where the related person can be contacted or visited.

Need to keep track where the related person can be contacted per postal mail or visited.

Image of the person.

Many EHR systems have the capability to capture an image of persons. Fits with newer social media usage too.

The period of time that this relationship is considered to be valid. If there are no dates defined, then the interval is unknown.