The Care Team includes all the people and organizations who plan to participate in the coordination and delivery of care for a patient.

This records identifiers associated with this care team that are defined by business processes and/or used to refer to it when a direct URL reference to the resource itself is not appropriate.

Indicates whether the care team is currently active, suspended, inactive, or entered in error.

Identifies what kind of team. This is to support differentiation between multiple co-existing teams, such as care plan team, episode of care team, longitudinal care team.

Used for filtering what teams(s) are retrieved and displayed to different types of users.

There may be multiple axis of categorization and one team may serve multiple purposes.

A label for human use intended to distinguish like teams. E.g. the "red" vs. "green" trauma teams.

The meaning/purpose of the team is conveyed in CareTeam.category. This element may also convey semantics of the team (e.g. "Red trauma team"), but it's primary purpose is to distinguish between identical teams in a human-friendly way. ("Team 18735" isn't as friendly . ).

Identifies the patient or group whose intended care is handled by the team.

Allows the team to care for a group (e.g. marriage) therapy.

Indicates when the team did (or is intended to) come into effect and end.

Allows tracking what team(s) are in effect at a particular time.

Identifies all people and organizations who are expected to be involved in the care team.

Indicates specific responsibility of an individual within the care team, such as "Primary care physician", "Trained social worker counselor", "Caregiver", etc.

Roles may sometimes be inferred by type of Practitioner. These are relationships that hold only within the context of the care team. General relationships should be handled as properties of the Patient resource directly.

The specific person or organization who is participating/expected to participate in the care team.

Patient only needs to be listed if they have a role other than "subject of care".

Member is optional because some participants may be known only by their role, particularly in draft plans.

Indicates when the specific member or organization did (or is intended to) come into effect and end.

The organization responsible for the care team.

Allows for multiple organizations to collaboratively manage cross-organizational, longitudinal care plan.