Prospective warnings of potential issues when providing care to the patient.

Identifier assigned to the flag for external use (outside the FHIR environment).

Allows an flag to be divided into different categories like clinical, administrative etc. Intended to be used as a means of filtering which flags are displayed to particular user or in a given context.

Supports basic workflow.

The period of time from the activation of the flag to inactivation of the flag. If the flag is active, the end of the period should be unspecified.

The patient, location, group , organization , or practitioner, etc. this is about record this flag is associated with.

This alert is only relevant during the encounter.

If both Flag.encounter and Flag.period are valued, then Flag.period.start shall not be before Encounter.period.start and Flag.period.end shall not be after Encounter.period.end.

The person, organization or device that created the flag.

The coded value or textual component of the flag to display to the user.

If non coded, use CodeableConcept.text. This element should always be included in the narrative.