Administration - FHIR v1.4.0

STU 3 Candidate

This page is part of the FHIR Specification (v1.4.0: STU 3 Ballot 3). The current version which supercedes this version is 5.0.0. For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

5.0 Administrative Resources

FHIR Infrastructure

Work Group

Maturity Level: N/A

Ballot Status: DSTU 2

Individuals

Track individuals involved in the provision of healthcare
Name	Aliases	Description
Patient	SubjectOfCare Client Resident	Demographics and other administrative information about an individual or animal receiving care or other health-related services.
Practitioner		A person who is directly or indirectly involved in the provisioning of healthcare.
PractitionerRole		A specific set of Roles/Locations/specialties/services that a practitioner may perform at an organization for a period of time.
RelatedPerson		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.

Groups
Track grouping entities involved in the provision of healthcare
Name	Aliases	Description
Organization		A formally or informally recognized grouping of people or organizations formed for the purpose of achieving some form of collective action. Includes companies, institutions, corporations, departments, community groups, healthcare practice groups, etc.
HealthcareService		The details of a healthcare service available at a location.
Group		Represents a defined collection of entities that may be discussed or acted upon collectively but which are not expected to act collectively and are not formally or legally recognized; i.e. a collection of entities that isn't an Organization.

Entities
Track other kinds of entities used in the provision of healthcare
Name	Aliases	Description
Location		Details and position information for a physical place where services are provided and resources and participants may be stored, found, contained or accommodated.
Substance		A homogeneous material with a definite composition.
Person		Demographics and administrative information about a person independent of a specific health-related context.
Contract		A formal agreement between parties regarding the conduct of business, exchange of information or other matters.

Devices
Devices and their capabilities
Name	Aliases	Description
Device		This resource identifies an instance or a type of a manufactured item that is used in the provision of healthcare without being substantially changed through that activity. The device may be a medical or non-medical device. Medical devices includes durable (reusable) medical equipment, implantable devices, as well as disposable equipment used for diagnostic, treatment, and research for healthcare and public health. Non-medical devices may include items such as a machine, cellphone, computer, application, etc.
DeviceComponent		Describes the characteristics, operational status and capabilities of a medical-related component of a medical device.
DeviceMetric		Describes a measurement, calculation or setting capability of a medical device.

Patient Management
Tracking the status of patients and their appointments
Note: The PA work-group would appreciate contributions to enhance the appointment resource(s) to cover additional use-cases if required for implementations
Name	Aliases	Description
Encounter	Visit	An interaction between a patient and healthcare provider(s) for the purpose of providing healthcare service(s) or assessing the health status of a patient.
EpisodeOfCare	Case Program Problem	An association between a patient and an organization / healthcare provider(s) during which time encounters may occur. The managing organization assumes a level of responsibility for the patient during this time.
Communication		An occurrence of information being transmitted; e.g. an alert that was sent to a responsible provider, a public health agency was notified about a reportable condition.
Flag	Barriers to Care, Alert	Prospective warnings of potential issues when providing care to the patient.
Appointment		A booking of a healthcare event among patient(s), practitioner(s), related person(s) and/or device(s) for a specific date/time. This may result in one or more Encounter(s).
AppointmentResponse		A reply to an appointment request for a patient and/or practitioner(s), such as a confirmation or rejection.
Schedule	Availability	A container for slot(s) of time that may be available for booking appointments.
Slot		A slot of time on a schedule that may be available for booking appointments.

Workflow
General healthcare provision workflow support
Name	Aliases	Description
Task		A task to be performed.
Order	Request	A request to perform an action.
OrderResponse		A response to an order.
CommunicationRequest		A request to convey information; e.g. the CDS system proposes that an alert be sent to a responsible provider, the CDS system proposes that the public health agency be notified about a reportable condition.
DeviceUseRequest		Represents a request for a patient to employ a medical device. The device may be an implantable device, or an external assistive device, such as a walker.
DeviceUseStatement		A record of a device being used by a patient where the record is the result of a report from the patient or another clinician.
ProcessRequest		This resource provides the target, request and response, and action details for an action to be performed by the target on or about existing resources.
ProcessResponse		This resource provides processing status, errors and notes from the processing of a resource.
SupplyRequest		A record of a request for a medication, substance or device used in the healthcare setting.
SupplyDelivery		Record of delivery of what is supplied.

Decision Support/Quality Measurement
Expressions for defining decision support and quality metrics
Name	Aliases	Description
DecisionSupportServiceModule		The DecisionSupportServiceModule describes a unit of decision support functionality that is made available as a service, such as immunization modules or drug-drug interaction checking.
DecisionSupportRule		This resource defines a decision support rule of the form [on Event] if Condition then Action. It is intended to be a shareable, computable definition of a actions that should be taken whenever some condition is met in response to a particular event or events.
GuidanceResponse		A guidance response is the formal response to a guidance request, including any output parameters returned by the evaluation, as well as the description of any proposed actions to be taken.
Library		The Library resource provides a representation container for knowledge artifact component definitions. It is effectively an exposure of the header information for a CQL/ELM library.
OrderSet		This resource allows for the definition of an order set as a sharable, consumable, and executable artifact in support of clinical decision support.
Measure		The Measure resource provides the definition of a quality measure.
MeasureReport		The MeasureReport resource contains the results of evaluating a measure.

Additional Resources will be added in the future. A list of hypothesized resources can be found on the HL7 wiki . Feel free to add any you think are missing or engage with one of the HL7 Work Groups to submit a proposal to define a resource of particular interest.