A specific set of Roles/Locations/specialties/services that a practitioner may perform at an organization for a period of time.

Need to track services that a healthcare provider is able to provide at an organization's location, and the services that they can perform there.

Business Identifiers that are specific to a role/location.

Often, specific identities are assigned for the agent.

Whether this practitioner's record is in active use.

Need to be able to mark a practitioner record as not to be used because it was created in error.

Default is true.

If the practitioner is not in use by one organization, then it should mark the period on the PractitonerRole with an end date (even if they are active) as they may be active in another role.

Practitioner that is able to provide the defined services for the organation.

The organization where the Practitioner performs the roles associated.

Roles which this practitioner is authorized to perform for the organization.

Need to know what authority the practitioner has - what can they do?

A person may have more than one role. At least one role is required.

Specific specialty of the practitioner.

The location(s) at which this practitioner provides care.

The list of healthcare services that this worker provides for this role's Organization/Location(s).

Contact details that are specific to the role/location/service.

Often practitioners have a dedicated line for each location (or service) that they work at, and need to be able to define separate contact details for each of these.

The period during which the person is authorized to act as a practitioner in these role(s) for the organization.

Even after the agencies is revoked, the fact that it existed must still be recorded.

A collection of times that the Service Site is available.

More detailed availability information may be provided in associated Schedule/Slot resources.

Indicates which days of the week are available between the start and end Times.

Is this always available? (hence times are irrelevant) e.g. 24 hour service.

The opening time of day. Note: If the AllDay flag is set, then this time is ignored.

The timezone is expected to be for where this HealthcareService is provided at.

The closing time of day. Note: If the AllDay flag is set, then this time is ignored.

The timezone is expected to be for where this HealthcareService is provided at.

The HealthcareService is not available during this period of time due to the provided reason.

The reason that can be presented to the user as to why this time is not available.

Service is not available (seasonally or for a public holiday) from this date.

A description of site availability exceptions, e.g. public holiday availability. Succinctly describing all possible exceptions to normal site availability as details in the available Times and not available Times.

Technical endpoints providing access to services operated for the practitioner with this role.

Organizations have multiple systems that provide various services and ,ay also be different for practitioners too.

So the endpoint satisfies the need to be able to define the technical connection details for how to connect to them, and for what purpose.