A manifest that defines a set of documents.

A single identifier that uniquely identifies this manifest. Principally used to refer to the manifest in non-FHIR contexts.

Other identifiers associated with the document, including version independent, source record and workflow related identifiers.

Other identifiers can also include Identifiers may be Accession Numbers, Order Numbers, Referral Request Identifiers, XDS Workflow Instance Identifiers.

Who or what the set of documents is about. The documents can be about a person, (patient or healthcare practitioner), a device (i.e. machine) or even a group of subjects (such as a document about a herd of farm animals, or a set of patients that share a common exposure). If the documents cross more than one subject, then more than one subject is allowed here (unusual use case).

A patient, practitioner, or organization for which this set of documents is intended.

How the recipient receives the document set or is notified of it is up to the implementation. This element is just a statement of intent.

Specifies the kind of this set of documents (e.g. Patient Summary, Discharge Summary, Prescription, etc.). The type of a set of documents may be the same as one of the documents in it - especially if there is only one - but it may be wider.

Identifies who is responsible for adding the information to the document.

Not necessarily who did the actual data entry (i.e. typist) or who was the source (informant).

When the document manifest was created for submission to the server (not necessarily the same thing as the actual resource last modified time, since it may be modified, replicated etc).

Creation time is used for tracking, organizing versions and searching. This is the creation time of the document set, not the documents on which it is based.

Identifies the source system, application, or software that produced the document manifest.

The status of this document manifest.

Whether this document manifest replaces another.

Human-readable description of the source document. This is sometimes known as the "title".

Helps humans to assess whether the document is of interest.

What the document is about, rather than a terse summary of the document. It is commonly the case that records do not have a title and are collectively referred to by the display name of Record code (e.g. a "consultation" or "progress note").

A code specifying the level of confidentiality of this set of Documents.

The document set is at least as confidential as the most confidential of the documents in it.

The list of resources that describe the parts of this document reference. Usually, these would be document references, but direct references to binary attachments and images are also allowed.